Boys in Empty Tenement, Harlem
Artist
Aaron Siskind
(American, 1903 - 1991)
Date1935; printed 1981
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/4 × 7 3/16 inches (23.5 × 18.26 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 10 7/8 inches (35.56 × 27.61 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 10 7/8 inches (35.56 × 27.61 cm)
Credit LineGift of Howard and Ellen Greenberg
Object number2014.58.40
SignedOn sheet recto, lower right, signature in black pen: "Aaron Siskind"
InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "Harlem 1935" , "Boys in Empty Tenement"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "PF112588-111", "3.29"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of empty tenement with boys playing in the windows and boarded up door reading "DANGER KEEP OUT".Copyright© Aaron Siskind Foundation
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