Hearst over the People
Artist
Barbara Morgan
(American, 1900 - 1992)
Date1939
MediumGelatin silver photomontage
DimensionsImage: 15 5/16 × 19 5/16 inches (38.89 × 49.05 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 19 13/16 inches (40.32 × 50.32 cm)
Mount: 15 7/8 × 19 13/16 inches (40.32 × 50.32 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 19 13/16 inches (40.32 × 50.32 cm)
Mount: 15 7/8 × 19 13/16 inches (40.32 × 50.32 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4059
SignedSigned on image recto, lower right, in black ink: "Barbara Morgan"
InscribedOn mount verso, upper left, in black ink: "HEARST OVER THE PEOPLE / Barbara Morgan / 1 Lexington Ave. / New York / gr-5-4228 / Price $25.00".
Markingsnone
Edition/State/ProofUnique
On View
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DescriptionAerial view of a large crowd of people in a public space. Imposed over the crowd is a floating smiling face (William Randolph Hearst) with mutliple dark tentacle-like appendages.Exhibition HistoryAmerican Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 27 – May 14, 2000, no cat.
Celebrating a Grand Gift: The Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 10 – April 30, 2006, no cat.
Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop. Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, NY, October 11, 2012 - January 27, 2013, National Gallery of Fine Art, Washington, D.C., February 17 - May 5, 2013, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2 June-25 August, 2013, no. 84.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1995;
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© Barbara Morgan, The Barbara Morgan Archives
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