Street of the Gamblers
Artist
Arnold Genthe
(American, born Germany, 1869 - 1942)
Dateca. 1896
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 13/16 × 12 9/16 inches (24.92 × 31.91 cm)
Mount: 14 × 18 inches (35.56 × 45.72 cm)
Mount: 14 × 18 inches (35.56 × 45.72 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4023
SignedSigned on mount recto, lower left, in pencil: "Arnold Genthe / N.Y."
MarkingsOn mount recto, upper left, in penci: "Xm[?] / 1934/5"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of men (dressed alike) walking down a crowded street.Exhibition HistoryRotation 6. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 13 – December 7, 2009, no cat.
Rotation 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.
Born in Germany, Arnold Genthe arrived in San Francisco in 1895. He took up the camera to make visual souvenirs of Chinatown to send back to his family. This led to a long and successful professional career in photography. His Chinatown images are dynamic and spontaneous—a result of his choice of a relatively small, handheld camera. The historical value of his images became very clear after the destruction of these neighborhoods in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Purchased from Photographs 6344, Sotheby’s, New York, NY, October 16, 1992, lot 112, by Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, 1992;
Purchased from Edwynn Houl Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1992;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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