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1922

Paul Strand

Associated Names
Paul Strand

Artist, American, 1890 - 1976

The image shows a close-up portrait of a person's face. The individual is looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression. They have short, dark hair and their eyes are slightly wide-set. The person's lips are closed. They are wearing a dark garment around the shoulders and neck, without visible jewelry. The background is softly blurred, indicating an indoor setting with neutral tones.
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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation, Millerton, NY; Southwestern Bell Corporation, St. Louis, MO; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Greenough 1990, p. 158, illus. p.51.

  • Paul Strand: An American Vision, National Gallery of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; Saint Louis Art Museum; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco; Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990 - 1992, unnumbered catalogue.

1999

  • Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999.

2000

  • Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001.

2011

  • Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 2011 - 2012, unnumbered catalogue.

2015

  • In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

Bibliography

1976

  • Paul Strand. Sixty Years of Photographs, Millerton, New York, 1976, illus. p.55.

1990

  • Greenough 1990, p. 158, illus. p. 51 and cover.

1991

  • Borhan, Pierre. "Paul Strand." Photographies Magazine, 1991: 10 repro.

  • Gingold, Diane J., and Elizabeth A.C. Weil. The Corporate Patron. New York, 1991: 176-177, repro.

Inscriptions

on verso, by later hand, upper left in graphite: MEH 4; upper right in graphite: 39-I

Wikidata ID

Q64158649

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