Washington Square, New York City
Artist
Dave Heath
(Canadian, born United States, 1931 - 2016)
Dateca. 1959
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 13/16 × 8 1/2 inches (19.84 × 21.59 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 number2005.37.273
SignedOn mount verso, center, in pencil: "Dave Heath";
On mount verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "Dave Heath / 483 Columbus Ave / EN 2 7928"
InscribedOn mount verso, center, in pencil: "Washington Square NYC c 1959"
MarkingsOn mount verso, top left, in pencil: "LP 184.2";
On mount verso, bottom center, in pencil: "PF 41318"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionVintage gelatin silver print on original mount; image of young child holding mother's 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, 98.
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), 98.
Copyright© Dave Heath
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