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Trash cans with Kodak ad

Artist Tosh Matsumoto (American, 1920 - 2010)
Dateca. 1950
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 13 3/16 × 8 13/16 inches (33.5 × 22.38 cm)
Mount: 13 3/16 × 8 13/16 inches (33.5 × 22.38 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.178
SignedArtist’s stamp on mount verso, lower right, in black ink: “TOSH MATSUMOTO / 58 WEST 57th STREET NEW YORK 19” / “Tosh Matsumoto”
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn mount verso, bottom, in pencil: “PF39936H”; On mount verso, lower right, in pencil: “52.1196” / “MOMA / 53.482”.
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DescriptionImage of cardboard cutout of woman holding camera; it is folded and placed upside down on top of trash cans near railing on sidewalk.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Copyright© Estate of Tosh Matsumoto
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