Matthew

Artist Kenneth Josephson (American, born 1932)

Date1963; printed ca. 1980

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 12 × 7 15/16 inches (30.48 × 20.16 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 inches (35.4 × 27.78 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.1498

SignedSigned on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "Kenneth Jospephson"

InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "5/50 63-35-16-1 / MATTHEW, 1963"

MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "59-2-81"

Edition/State/Proofed. 5/50

On View

Not on view

Collections

Photography

Terms

DescriptionImage of an infant laying on the grass with the shadow of a man cast on top of the child.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 – May 1, 1983.

Faces: an Exhibition from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 16 -October 21, 1984, no. 43.

Twentieth-Century Photographers: Selections from the HPC. Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, March 28 - April 27, 1996, no cat.

Rotation 20. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 8, 2015 – February 28, 2016, no cat.

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1981;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005

Published References

Keith F. Davis. New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1983. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 9 (repro.).

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