Untitled #10, Man Carrying Carton
Artist
Beuford Smith
(American, born 1941)
Dateca. 1970
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 15/16 × 4 11/16 inches (17.62 × 11.91 cm)
Mount: 14 × 10 15/16 inches (35.56 × 27.78 cm)
Mount: 14 × 10 15/16 inches (35.56 × 27.78 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.30.10
SignedSigned on mount verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "© Beuford Smith.";
Artist's stamp on mount verso, center, in black ink: "BEUFORD SMITH / 1015 SIXTH AVE. N.Y. 10018 / 564-8459"
InscribedInscribed on mount verso, center, in blue pen: "untitled #10";
Inscribed on mount verso, center, in pencil: "(man carrying carton)";
Dated on mount verso, center, in pencil and marked out with black marker: "1977" / [? blacked out]"
Markingsnone
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage taken from above of man walking down side walk while carrying a large cardboard box on his back.Exhibition HistoryRotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.
Beuford Smith is best known for his Civil Rights-era photographs and his affiliation with the influential Kamoinge Workshop, a group founded in 1963 as a creative forum for African American photographers. Other founding members of Kamoinge (a word in Kenya’s Kikuyu language meaning "a group of people acting together") included Roy DeCarava, a key inspiration and the group’s first director, and Louis Draper. The Kamoinge Workshop enhanced the public recognition of a vital generation of African American photographers.
Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York, NY;
Purshased from Keith de Lellis Gallery by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Purshased from Keith de Lellis Gallery by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Copyright© Beuford Smith
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