Pearlstine alley, Charleston, South Carolina
Artist
Peter Sekaer
(American, born Denmark, 1901 - 1950)
Dateca. 1938-1940
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 3/8 inches (17.15 × 23.83 cm)
Mount: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (34.29 × 26.67 cm)
Mount: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (34.29 × 26.67 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2015.67.48
Signednone
InscribedOn mount verso, lower left, in brown pen: "Charleston, S.C. / Please credit: / Peter Sekaer / United States Housing Authority"
MarkingsOn mount verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "PS0699";
On mount verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "BS43"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of free-spirited children playing in alley near a Charleston tenement.Exhibition HistoryDignity vs. Despair: Dorothea Lange and the Depression Era Photographers, 1933-1941. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 23 – November 26, 2017, no cat.
Copyright© Estate of Peter Sekaer / Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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Peter Sekaer
ca. 1936-1938
2016.75.259
