A Home in the Mississippi Delta

1963

Danny Lyon

Artist, American, born 1942

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 11 × 18.9 cm (4 5/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 12 × 20.2 cm (4 3/4 × 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.111

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Simon Lowinsky Gallery, New York); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, bottom center in graphite: Danny Lyon; center: Mississippi delta- / houses within / a mile of / each other; top left printed in black ink on applied sticker: BLACKS / THE MOVEMENT; by unknown hand, along left edge in graphite: The Movement- Book Print; upper left stamped in black ink perpendicular: Photographed By / Danny Lyon / © 1969 MAGNUM PHOTOS / 72 West 45th Street, N.Y.C. 10036; by unknown hand, center in blue pencil perpendicular: #22 [?]; center stamped in blue ink: MAGNUM / PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT / NEW YORK / LOG REF. / TO BE RETURNED.; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: Rear cropped / (1963) Mississippi / Delta; lower left in blue pencil: 41-4; lower center in blue ink circled: G2; lower right stamped in red ink: Printer [by unknown hand in graphite: DL] / BLEAK BEAUTY / [by unknown hand in graphite: 1963 1963] / PICTURE DATE PRINT DATE

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