New York

1940

Helen Levitt

Associated Names
Helen Levitt

Artist, American, 1913 - 2009

This is a child's drawing on a chalkboard. The drawing features a simple house with a triangular roof in the center, surrounded by two trees. There are flowers, stick figures, and a sun in the upper left corner. A horizontal band is drawn above the house. The ground and sky are separated by chalk strokes, and the word "country" is written at the bottom.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.7 × 30.1 cm (8 1/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 27.3 × 35 cm (10 3/4 × 13 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.30.106

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 4 October 1993; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, center in graphite: N.Y. C.A. 1940 Helen Levitt; upper center: B35; lower right: Toned; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: HL.638.x

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