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Wall Graffiti, Chicago

Artist Yasuhiro Ishimoto (Japanese, born United States, 1921 - 2012)
Dateca. 1950-1952
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches (19.37 x 23.81 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4038
InscribedSignature Signed in artist's hand Back of Print
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionVintage gelatin silver print, s.w. glossy surface. Image of graffiti (includes several handprints) on a wall. Signature on back of print. Unmounted.Exhibition History

American Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 27 – May 14, 2000, no cat.

Rotation 8. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 12 – October 11, 2010, no cat.

Rotation 24. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – November 12, 2017, no cat.

Gallery Label

Yasuhiro Ishimoto photographed Chicago in the early 1950s, while studying at the Institute of Design. His work is at once formally sophisticated and deeply humane. He was concerned with both the graphic “life” of the image and the character of the people and neighborhoods that he recorded. This image presents a simple but universal sign of the human condition. The repeated black handprints here imply a human presence that is at once fixed and fleeting.

Provenance

Stuart Baum, Chicago, IL;
Purchased from Stuart Baum by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1996;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

Copyright© Estate of Yasuhiro Ishimoto
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