Yucatan: The Man-Child

Artist Edward Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879 - 1973)

Date1938; printed ca. 1960

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 11 9/16 × 14 1/16 inches (29.37 × 35.72 cm)
Sheet: 13 11/16 × 17 3/8 inches (34.77 × 44.13 cm)
Mount: 14 1/2 × 18 9/16 inches (36.83 × 47.15 cm)
Mat: 18 1/2 × 22 inches (46.99 × 55.88 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.2194

SignedSigned on sheet recto, lower right, in black marker: "STEICHEN"; Signed on sheet recto, bottom margin, in pencil: "Edward Steichen"; Signed and dated on mat verso, center, in black marker: "Edward Steichen / 1938".

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn sheet recto, in right margin, on negative/reversed: "KODAK SAFETY FILM"; On mount verso, center, in pencil: "E" [circled]; On mat verso, upper left, in pencil: "1-14-69"; On mat verso, center, in pencil: "8846 / 8 [circled] / (+mat)".

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DescriptionImage of a young child, wearing soiled clothing in center of frame. He is being held by an older woman kneeling next to him on the left of the frame, and a second woman on the right of the frame is reaching toward his shoulder also kneeling beside him.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

20th-Century Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, January 10 - February 22, 1981, no cat.

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

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1969;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

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