Barbara Freed and her son Sean, New York City

Series TitleA Dialogue with Solitude

Artist Dave Heath (Canadian, born United States, 1931 - 2016)

Dateca. 1959

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 3/8 × 7 13/16 inches (16.19 × 19.84 cm)
Mount: 13 3/4 × 11 inches (34.93 × 27.94 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2005.37.233

SignedArtist's signature on mount verso, top, in pencil: "Dave Heath".

InscribedOn mount verso, top, in pencil: "Barbara Freed and son Sean ca1958-60 / ADWS master print 1962".

MarkingsNumbered on mount recto, lower right corner, in pencil: "96".

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Description"A Dialogue with Solitude" master set; page 96Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, September 19, 2015 – February 21, 2016, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 19, 2016 – March 19, 2017, 216.

Provenance

Purchased from Howard Greenburg Gallery, New York, NY by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 2001;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

Published References

Keith F. Davis, “Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath” in Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015), 216.

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