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Tennis Serve

Portfolio TitleSeeing the Unseen
Artist Harold Eugene Edgerton (American, 1903 - 1990)
Printer Gus Kayafas (American, born 1947)
Date1952; printed 1977
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 11 7/16 × 9 11/16 inches (29.05 × 24.61 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 inches (35.4 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1317
SignedSigned and editioned on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "25/60 HAROLD EDGERTON"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "74-4-82", "P5.074.004.82"
Edition/State/Proofed. 25/60 + 10APs
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage of a tennis serve in motion.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.

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

Photographic Abstraction.  Utah State University, Logan, UT, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Fine Art Center/Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, Montgomery Museum of Art, AL, January – September 1987, no cat.

Provenance
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1982;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Estate of Harold Edgerton
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