New York City
Artist
Dave Heath
(Canadian, born United States, 1931 - 2016)
Date1959
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (16.51 × 24.77 cm)
Mount: 14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm)
Mount: 14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.140
SignedOn mount verso, center, in pencil: "Dave Heath"
InscribedOn mount verso, center, in pencil: "NYC 1959"
MarkingsOn mount verso, top left corner, in pencil: "LP 255.1";
On mount verso, bottom, in pencil: "PF 38163"
On View
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DescriptionVintage gelatin silver print on original mount of boys wearing hats and coats standing on sidewalk; one boy covering face with hand.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, 101.
Purchased from Howard Greenburg Gallery, New York, NY by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2003;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation 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), 101.
Copyright© Dave Heath
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