Pearl Primus - Speak to Me of Rivers
Barbara Morgan, American, 1900 - 1992
1944; print about 1980
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 5/16 × 13 1/8 in. (23.7 × 33.4 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 13 3/4 in. (27.8 × 35 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Nils and Kara Morgan
2007.84.3
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right margin: Barbara Morgan - 1944 [in script]; signed, dated, and titled, in ink, on reverse, center: PEARL PRIMUS - SPEAK TO ME OF RIVERS - 1944 - C. 1980 [with wavy underscore] / Barbara Morgan [in script]; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, lower right: 3
Provenance
The artist; Nils [her grandson] and Kara Morgan, Redding, Connecticut; given to present collection, 2007.
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