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Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #63
Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #63

Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #63

Artist Aaron Siskind (American, 1903 - 1991)
Date1956
MediumGelatin silver print
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.315
InscribedTitled Signed in artist's hand Recto Ink Signature Signed in artist's hand Recto Ink
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DescriptionImage of a man wearing swim trunks in a free fall against a white background; his left leg is straight out in front of him while his right leg is bent.Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2003; [1]
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

 

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