Cocteau's Hands
Artist
Berenice Abbott
(American, 1898 - 1991)
Date1927; printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 10 9/16 × 13 11/16 inches (26.83 × 34.77 cm)
Mount: 20 1/16 × 16 1/16 inches (50.96 × 40.8 cm)
Mount: 20 1/16 × 16 1/16 inches (50.96 × 40.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.649
SignedSigned on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "BERENICE ABBOTT";
Artist's stamp on mount verso, center, in black ink: "BERENICE ABBOTT / ABBOT, MAINE 04406 / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 - May 1, 1983, unnumbered.
Selections from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, LA, July 2 - August 21, 1988, Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, OK, September 8 - September 30, 1988, Cottey College, Nevada, MO, October 31 - November 11, 1988, no cat.
Twentieth-Century Photographers: Selections from the HPC. Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, March 28 - April 27, 1996, no cat.
Edwynn Houk, New York, NY;
Purchased from Edwynn Houk by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1982;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Purchased from Edwynn Houk by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1982;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics
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