Beyond the Gates of Eden

Artist Dave Heath (Canadian, born United States, 1931 - 2016)

Date1969

MediumGelatin silver prints

DimensionsCollaged images: 12 1/2 x 31 1/4 inches (31.75 x 79.38 cm)
Mount (#1): 15 1/16 x 33 3/4 inches (38.26 x 85.73 cm)
Mount (#2): 18 1/2 x 37 1/8 inches (46.99 x 94.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Howard Greenberg and Stephen Bulger

Object number2013.31

SignedSigned on mount verso, center, in black marker: “Dave Heath”

InscribedOn mount verso, center, black stamp with black marker: “Negative number ___ / Name Beyond the Gates of Eden / Location USA / Date photographed 1964-1967 / Date of print Layout conceived Feb 3-4, 1969: 10pm-6am / modified over the following 10 days / First shown at Image 69, April 19:1pm”

MarkingsOn mount verso, upper left, stamped in black: “910116 Crescent NO 9244 910116 Crescent”

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DescriptionA maquette composed of 160 vintage gelatin silver contact prints for the slide show "Beyond the Gates of Eden".Exhibition History

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, 54,55.

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), 54, 55.

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