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Washington Square, New York City

Artist Dave Heath (Canadian, born United States, 1931 - 2016)
Date1960
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 inches (24.77 × 17.78 cm)
Mount: 14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.275
SignedOn mount verso, top center, in pencil: "Dave Heath"
InscribedOn mount verso, top center, in pencil: "Washington Square NYC ca 1960"
MarkingsOn mount verso, top edge, in pencil: "LP 218.3"; On mount verso, bottom edge, in pencil: "PF41322"
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionVintage gelatin silver print on original mount; image of woman with patterned shirt and hand near face.Exhibition 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, 112.

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), 112.

Copyright© Dave Heath
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