The youngest of the Parkinson children
Series TitlePower and the Land
Artist
Peter Sekaer
(American, born Denmark, 1901 - 1950)
Dateca. 1938-1940
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 7/8 × 12 7/16 inches (25.08 × 31.59 cm)
Mount: 19 7/8 × 16 inches (50.48 × 40.64 cm)
Mount: 19 7/8 × 16 inches (50.48 × 40.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.262
SignedSigned on mount verso, bottom, in pencil: “Christina Sekaer”;
Annotated and dated on mount verso, bottom, in pencil: “this is an original photograph by PETER SEKAER c. 1936”;
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn mount verso, bottom, in pencil: “PF34975CS”, “REA BP1”.
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of young boy and girl wearing overalls; the girl smiles sweetly while sitting in doorway and the boy sits barefoot on a large rock just outside.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
