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Parking Lot, Chicago

Artist László Moholy-Nagy (American, born Hungary, 1895 - 1946)
Date1937
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 10 15/16 × 13 1/4 inches (27.78 × 33.66 cm)
Framed: 20 3/4 × 22 3/4 × 1 1/2 inches (52.71 × 57.79 × 3.81 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2795
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage of a parking lot covered in snow. Multiple cars are parked in rows in upper and lower edges of the frame. Multiple tire marks circle the parked cars.Exhibition History

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

20th-Century Works from the Hallmark Photographic Collection.  Cottey College, Nevada, MO, January 9-27, 1984, no cat.

Cityscapes: 20th Century Urban Images from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. First Street Forum, St. Louis, MO, April 13-May 20, 1984, no cat.

Selections from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Highland Community College, Highland, KS, October 19 - November 11, 1993, no cat.

Rotation 18. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 14, 2014 – May 3, 2015, no cat.

Provenance
Sybil Moholy-Nagy;
with Inge Bondi, New York, NY by 1970;
Purchased from Inge Bondi by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1970;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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