Window Washer Fallen to His Death, Graybar Building, New York City
Artist
Dave Heath
(Canadian, born United States, 1931 - 2016)
Date1959
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 9/16 × 9 1/2 inches (19.21 × 24.13 cm)
Mount: 13 15/16 × 11 inches (35.4 × 27.94 cm)
Mount: 13 15/16 × 11 inches (35.4 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.142
SignedOn mount verso, top center, in pencil: "Dave Heath"
InscribedOn mount verso, top center, in pencil: "Window washer fallen to his death - Graybar Building NYC / Thanksgiving Day 1959"
MarkingsOn mount verso, top left, in pencil: "LP 281.1";
On mount verso, bottom center, in pencil: "PF38170"
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DescriptionVintage gelatin silver print on original mount of policemen moving body to a stretcher.Exhibition HistoryMultitude, 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, 26.
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.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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), 26.
Copyright© Dave Heath
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