The Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation

Artist Aaron Siskind (American, 1903 - 1991)

Date1961

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 11 x 10 1/2 inches (27.94 x 26.67 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.4364

InscribedSignature Signed in artist's hand Front of Print Notations "DD99-'61 B5" Back of Print

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DescriptionImage of a man wearing swim trunks in free fall against a white background; his legs are bent behind him and his arms are stretched out to his sides.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 – May 1, 1983.

Rotation 4. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 20, 2008 – January 15, 2009, no cat.

Rotation 11. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 17, 2011 – March 18, 2012, no cat.

Provenance

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY;
Purchased from Pace/MacGill Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1992;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc., to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

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