Densmore Shute Bending the Shaft

1938

Harold Edgerton

Artist, American, 1903 - 1990

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and David Robinson

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.7 x 19.6 cm (7 3/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.3 x 20.7 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
    support: 30.2 x 24.7 cm (11 7/8 x 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.35.11

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

David and Mary Robinson, Sausalito, CA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • The First Century of Photography: New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1992

  • The Sporting Life. Exh. cat. High Museum of Art. Atlanta, Georgia, 1992, no. 66, illus.p.9.

Inscriptions

lower center verso in black ink: Dennis Shute / Harold Edgerton; by later hand, upper center verso in red ink: Pg 10; by later hand, lower right in graphite: MHE.113.Y PM 4; all on mount: upper right in graphite: 66; lower center in graphite: Blue & Black; lower right in red pencil: 19

Wikidata ID

Q64154714

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