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Boy on Roof, New York

Series TitlePitt Street Series
Artist Walter Rosenblum (American, 1919 - 2000)
Date1950
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/4 x 9 3/16 inches (18.42 x 23.34 cm)
Framed: 16 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches (42.55 x 52.71 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4332
InscribedSigned/Titled/Dated Signed in artist's hand Back of Print In pencil
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionSigned, titled and dated in pencil on back of print. Image of a boy on a roof, overlooking a bridge (in NY).Exhibition History

Black and White in America: Photography of the Civil Rights Era. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 19 – October 3, 2004, no cat. 

Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 26, 2009 –  February 21, 2010, no cat.

Copyright© Estate of Walter Rosenblum / Nina Rosenblum
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