New York

c. 1938

Helen Levitt

Artist, American, 1913 - 2009

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    R. K. Mellon Family Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 18.3 x 23.3 cm (7 3/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
    mount: 24.7 x 28.3 cm (9 3/4 x 11 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.52.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY); NGA purchase, 2003.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1965

  • A Way of Seeing. New York, 1965, 33.

1987

  • Helen Levitt: In the Street, Chalk Drawings and Messages, New York City, 1938-1948. Durham, North Carolina, 1987, 58.

1991

  • Phillips, Sandra S. and Maria Morris Hambourg. Helen Levitt. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, 1991, pl. 11.

2001

  • Helen Levitt: Crosstown. New York, 2001, 57.

Inscriptions

all on mount: upper right in graphite: NH 35; lower left in graphite: RB Tones more like this; lower left in graphite: vintage / (wrong negative); center verso in graphite: N.Y. ca. 1938 / Helen Levitt / book 33; center verso in black ink: 23 (in square; 3 struck, 4 added in graphite); lower left verso in graphite: 40; lower left verso in graphite: Helen Levitt 11 (circled)

Wikidata ID

Q64154950

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