Untitled
c. 1930
Artist, American, 1905 - 1989
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 12.4 × 16 cm (4 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
mount: 36.2 × 28.5 cm (14 1/4 × 11 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2023.147.20
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Caroline Whiting Fellows, Crestone, CO; by inheritance to her niece, Isabell VanMerlin (Anna Belle O. Whiting), Dover, NH; gift to NGA, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
lower center on mount printed in black ink on applied label: WHITING / To heighten the classical effect, we made a nega- / tive print (paper instead of film) of a dancer. / Town & Country used it to illustrate an article / on beauty exercises. But most people call on / us for still-life photography. Whiting-Fellows, / 730 Fifth Avenue, New York. Columbus 5-0951 / FELLOWS; on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied label: Photographed by / Caroline Whiting Fellows / Circa [by unknown hand in graphite: 1930] Cat # [by unknown hand in graphite: 30CM022] / For more information contact / C. Lowery [phone number]; upper left stamped in black ink: © COPYRIGHT A.B. WHITING 2000; by unknown hand, upper center in red ink on applied label: SB; upper right in black ink on applied label: 1B [in graphite] Negative Head & Hands / CM14 [dimensions] mtd / SB negative / Town & Country used this to illustrate / an article on beauty exercises.