New York
Artist
Saul Leiter
(American, 1923 - 2013)
Dateca. 1950
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 11 × 16 15/16 inches (27.94 × 43.02 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2761
SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "Saul Leiter"
InscribedOn sheet verso, upper left corner, upside down, in pencil: "very early print"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "SLV-83B", "325-2-93".
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DescriptionImage of a young girl wearing a coat and headscarf, her face is in profile. Several figures are walking across a stone courtyard in the background.Exhibition HistoryHide & Seek: Picturing Childhood. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 26 September 2009 – 21 February 2010, no cat.
Rotation 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.
Saul Leiter’s photographs of New York City in the 1950s are poetic explorations of a place at once alienating and vibrant with energy. The young girl in this image appears disconnected from the adult world around her, absorbed in her own thoughts. She stands alone, shadowed against the sunstruck street behind her and the flow of blurred, unseen strangers.
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY;
Purchased from Howard Greenberg Gallery by Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1993;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Purchased from Howard Greenberg Gallery by Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1993;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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