Edith and Elijah, Danville, Virginia

Emmet Gowin, American, born 1941

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1968

Gelatin silver print

Image: 5 5/8 × 7 3/16 in. (14.3 × 18.3 cm)

Sheet: 7 15/16 × 10 1/16 in. (20.2 × 25.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hazen, by exchange

2015.17.3

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and inscribed, on reverse, lower center, in graphite: Edith and Elijah, Danville, Virginia 1968 / [underlined] / emmet gowin; inscribed, on reverse, lower right: Last; inscribed, on reverse, upper right corner, in graphite: EG.223.3 / for . dartmouth[underlined]; inscribed, on reverse, top edge, left to right: Agfa 2[circled] Sft 8@11 T 2 [illeg.] / [sketch] / f t / [illeg.]

Course History

SART 29.01, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Fall 2022

Anthropology 27.01, Economic Anthropology, Maron Greenleaf, Spring 2024

Socioloty 61.01, Quantative Social Sciences 30.17, Women's, Gender, and Sexualit Studies 33.05 Gender (In)equality, Kristin Smith, Spring 2024

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality, Studies 30.05, Latin American and Caribbean Studies 36.01, Maid in America, Francine A'Ness, Spring 2024

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality, Studies 30.05, Latin American and Caribbean Studies 36.01, Maid in America, Francine A'Ness, Spring 2024

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality, Studies 30.05, Latin American and Caribbean Studies 36.01, Maid in America, Francine A'Ness, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

Who Cares?- WGSS 30.05 Maid in America: The Politics of Domestic Labor, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 19-August 11, 2024.

Provenance

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2015.

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