25th Street, Birmingham, Alabama

Artist Peter Sekaer (American, born Denmark, 1901 - 1950)

Date1938

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 11/16 × 13 3/16 inches (24.61 × 33.5 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/16 × 13 15/16 inches (28.42 × 35.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2016.75.255

SignedSigned on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: “Christina Sekaer”; Annotated and dated on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: “this is an original photograph by PETER SEKAER c. 1936”

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: “PF104292”, “BS9”.

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Not on view

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Photography

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DescriptionImage of one woman seated on porch swing reading newspaper while another cleans soapy water off the floor below her with a broom.Exhibition History

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.

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