Portrait of a Family, 1922

Not on View

Medium

palladium print

Dimensions

image: 22 × 15.3 cm (8 11/16 × 6 in.)
mount: 35.6 × 27.5 cm (14 × 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

R. K. Mellon Family Foundation

Accession Number

2013.178.1

Artists / Makers

Edith R. Wilson (artist) American, 1864 - 1924

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on mount under image in graphite: Edith R Wilson.; on verso, by artist, center in graphite: Palladium Print [underlined] / Negro Family / By Edith R. Wilson, / Canaan Conn 1922. / (C.H.W. Summer School); by unknown hand, top center in graphite: full [?]; upper right corner: RMG 26111 869; across bottom: 2176 1997.cws.135 [CWS 69]

Provenance

Estate of Margaret Watkins; (Robert Mann Gallery, New York, 2012); (Charles Isaacs, Photographs, Inc., New York); NGA purchase, 2013.

Associated Names

Isaacs Photographs, Charles

Exhibition History

2014: A Subtle Beauty: Platinum Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015, unnumbered catalogue.

Margaret Watkins: Domestic Symphony, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, March 14 - May 11, 2013.