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Man with Umbrella, Nashville, Tennessee

1970, printed 2024

John Simmons

Artist, American, born 1950

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund
Dimensions

image: 30.73 × 20.07 cm (12 1/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
sheet: 28.19 × 36.07 cm (11 1/8 × 14 3/16 in.)
Accession

2024.24.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Simmons, Los Angeles; NGA purchase, 2024.

Associated Names

Simmons, John

Exhibition History

2025

The '70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 6, 2024–April 6, 2025

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: John Simmons, ASC / Nashville, TN, 1971 / Man with Umbrella"

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