Nurse Midwife
W. Eugene Smith, American, 1918 - 1978
1951
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 9 1/4 × 13 7/16 in. (23.5 × 34.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Andrew E. Lewin, Class of 1981
2008.63
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
On view
Inscriptions
Signed, in ink, on reverse of mount, center: W. Eugene Smith [in script]; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse of mount, upper center to right: FILE NURSE MIDWIFE #1; inscribed, in ink, on reverse of mount, upper left: B2; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse of mount, upper right: X75-48 / 5,000 / (1951)
Course History
ARTH 17, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2013
SART 30, SART 75, Photography II, III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2013
ANTH 7, The Values of Medicine, Sienna Craig, Winter 2013
ANTH 17, The Anthropology of Health and Illness, Lauren Gulbas, Fall 2013
SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015
GEOG 17, Geopolitics and Third World Development, Patricia Lopez, Spring 2015
GEOG 17, Geopolitics and Third World Development, Patricia Lopez, Spring 2015
GEOG 72.01/AAAS 67.50/WGSS 66.09, Black Consciousness Black Feminism, Abby Neely, Spring 2022
Writing Program 5.01, Experience and Education: Students, Teachers, Institutions, and the Power of Learning, Francine A'Ness, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 50, America: In Black and White?, Sarah Crnkovich, Class of 2009, Interpretation and Programming Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 30-May 31, 2009.
Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, and Northeast Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 22, 2023–May 25, 2024.
Publication History
Sarah Crnkovich, A Space for Dialogue 50, America: In Black and White?, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2009, ill. p. 1.
Provenance
Lee Gallery, Winchester, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2008.
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