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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
recto sheet overall
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Series TitleA Dialogue with Solitude
Artist Dave Heath (Canadian, born United States, 1931 - 2016)
Date1958
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 5/16 × 9 9/16 inches (16.03 × 24.29 cm)
Mount: 13 3/4 × 11 inches (34.93 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.201
SignedArtist's signature on mount verso, top, in pencil: "Dave Heath".
InscribedOn mount verso, top, in pencil: "Metropolitan Museum of Art ca. 1957-60 ADWS master print 1962".
MarkingsNumbered on mount recto, lower right corner, in pencil: "61".
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Description"A Dialogue with Solitude" master set; page 61Exhibition History

Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, September 19, 2015 – February 21, 2016, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 19, 2016 – March 19, 2017, 181.

Provenance
Purchased from Howard Greenburg Gallery, New York, NY by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 2001; 
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Published References

Keith F. Davis, “Multitude, Solitude:The Photographs of Dave Heath” in  Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015), 181.

Copyright© Dave Heath
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