Cutting the Playing Card Quickly
Portfolio TitleSeeing the Unseen
Artist
Harold Eugene Edgerton
(American, 1903 - 1990)
Printer
Gus Kayafas
(American, born 1947)
Dateca. 1964; printed 1977
MediumDye transfer print
DimensionsImage: 11 × 13 13/16 inches (27.94 × 35.08 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/16 × 15 7/8 inches (33.18 × 40.32 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/16 × 15 7/8 inches (33.18 × 40.32 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1322
SignedSigned and editioned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "25/60 / HAROLD EDGERTON"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "74-11-82", "P5.074.011.82"
Edition/State/Proofed. 25/60 + 10APs
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionA Jack of diamonds playing card bisected by a bullet passing though it.Exhibition HistoryPhotographic Abstraction. Utah State University, Logan, UT, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Fine Art Center/Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, Montgomery Museum of Art, AL, January – September 1987, no cat.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1982;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Estate of Harold Edgerton
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