Untitled, Chicago

Artist Yasuhiro Ishimoto (Japanese, born United States, 1921 - 2012)

Date1949-1950; printed ca. 1975

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 1/8 × 8 1/16 inches (20.65 × 20.47 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/8 × 10 inches (30.81 × 25.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Margaret and Cole Lundquist

Object number2018.68.11

SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "Yas Ishimoto"

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "6-89" / "1992.1175", "358".

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DescriptionImage of a little boy wearing swim trunks standing in profile at a concession stand. From behind we see a young boy and a woman, both in swimming suits, leaning on the wooden bar.Provenance

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Yasuhiro Ishimoto;

David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg;

Their gift to The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1999;

Deaccessioned by them and purchased by Margaret and Cole Lundquist, Chicago, IL, 2014;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.

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