Petition for Clothes (Unemployment Council sequence)
Aaron Siskind, American, 1903 - 1991
negative about 1934; print 1981
Gelatin silver print
Image: 11 7/8 × 8 3/4 in. (30.2 × 22.2 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Malcolm Grear
2012.73.2
Printer
Michaela Murphy, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Classification
Photograph
Not on view
Inscription
Inscribed, on reverse, lower left: stamped: PRINTED FROM ORIGINAL NEGATIVE / AT GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE; inscribed, in graphite, lower left, towards center: 68:333:186 / 1981 (P3a) MAM; inscribed, in graphite, lower right corner: 39%
Course History
SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum‘s Collection, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015
SART 30, SART 75, Photography II, III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2013
Provenance
The artist; given to Malcolm Grear (1931-2016), Providence, Rhode Island; BigTown Gallery, Rochester, Vermont; given to present collection, 2012.
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