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Artist Dave Heath (Canadian, born United States, 1931 - 2016)
Date1952
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 5/8 × 7 11/16 inches (19.37 × 19.53 cm)
Mount: 14 x 11 inches (35.56 x 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2011.67.34
SignedSigned on mount verso, in pencil: "Dave Heath".
InscribedTitled and dated on mount verso, in pencil: "Philadelphia 1952".
MarkingsOn mount verso, top left, in pencil: "LP 276.1"; On mount verso, bottom edge, in pencil: "PF38176"
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionTwo hands holding each other, one hand holding package.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, 77.

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), 77. 

Copyright© Dave Heath
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