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Interior, Nashville, Tennessee

Artist Peter Sekaer (American, born Denmark, 1901 - 1950)
Date1939
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/16 × 9 5/8 inches (18.26 × 24.45 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 inches (20.32 × 25.24 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.258
SignedSigned and annotated by the photographer’s daughter, Christina Sekaer, on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: “this is an original photograph by PETER SEKAER c.1936 [signature]”
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: “B114”.
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage of two women with sharp gazes standing near stove with arms crossed; the wall behind them is in poor condition with cracks and holes scattered across.Exhibition History

Dignity 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.

Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Copyright© Estate of Peter Sekaer / Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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