Sun and Shade

1952

Roy DeCarava

Artist, American, 1919 - 2009

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Joshua P. Smith)

  • Dimensions

    image: 32.7 × 24.45 cm (12 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 35.24 × 26.99 cm (13 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.)
    mount: 46.36 × 36.2 cm (18 1/4 × 14 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.4297

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joshua P. Smith, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through the Witkin Gallery, Inc., New York), 1982; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Both Sides of the Street: Celebrating the Corcoran's Photography Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 12 – August 25, 2003

2011

  • Framed: Street Photography from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3 – April 17, 2011

Bibliography

2008

  • Malet, Rosa Maria et al. Modernitat Americana: Obres de la Corcoran Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2008: 104, 168.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right below image in graphite: ROY DECARAVA; on verso of mount, by unknown hand, bottom center: Roy De CARAVA / SUN and Shade; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 1982.65

Wikidata ID

Q64170460

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