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Artist Dave Heath (Canadian, born United States, 1931 - 2016)
Date1949
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 2 7/16 × 3 9/16 inches (6.19 × 9.05 cm)
Mount: 5 1/2 x 6 15/16 inches (13.97 x 17.62 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2011.67.24
Signednone
InscribedOn mount recto, lower right, in blue pencil: "1949"
MarkingsOn mount verso, top edge, in pencil: "LP4371"
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionCrowd on bleachers; tall buildings in the background.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, 71.

Provenance
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2011;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2011.
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), 71.

Copyright© Dave Heath
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