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Artist Dave Heath (Canadian, born United States, 1931 - 2016)
Date1956
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 5 1/4 × 9 7/8 inches (13.34 × 25.08 cm)
Mount: 13 15/16 × 11 inches (35.4 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.267
SignedSigned on mount verso, center, in pencil: "Dave Heath"
InscribedOn mount verso, upper left, in pencil: "Reject from ADWS / Chicago 1955/56"
MarkingsOn mount verso, upper left, in pencil: "LP 70.3" , "5"; On mount verso, upper right, black stamp and pencil: "JUN 12 ENT'D / 218ES / JUL 3 / 64" On mount verso, lower right corner, red stamp: "DAVE HEATH / 483 COLUMBUS AVENUE / NEW YORK 24 * EN2-7928"
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionVintage gelatin silver print on original mount of girl wearing hat and coat and resting head on hand.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, 85.

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), 85.

Copyright© Dave Heath
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