Louisville, Kentucky
Artist
Peter Sekaer
(American, born Denmark, 1901 - 1950)
Dateca. 1936
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 3/8 inches (16.51 × 23.81 cm)
Mount: 9 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (24.13 × 29.85 cm)
Mount: 9 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (24.13 × 29.85 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.260
Signednone
InscribedOn mount recto, top, in black type with black pen: “Classification: Louisville, Ky. Negative No. S-284 / Title / 16-4436”
MarkingsOn mount verso, top, in black type: “REA-IR-2 / Negative No. / Place / Date / Taken by / Caption”;
On mount verso, bottom, in black type: “RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMININSTRATION / U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-4436”;
On mount verso, bottom, in pencil: “PF83952-14”, “WS-16”.
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of adults and children wearing coats and hats while waiting in line on sidewalk; most holding empty jars and cans.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.
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 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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Peter Sekaer
ca. 1936-1938
2016.75.259
