Merry Christmas: from the portfolio Twenty-two Little Contact Prints from 1921-1929 Negatives

Ralph Steiner, American, 1899 - 1986

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negative 1922; print 1981

Gelatin silver print

21/50

Image: 2 1/2 × 3 1/16 in. (6.4 × 7.8 cm)

Sheet: 3 15/16 × 5 in. (10 × 12.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of I. Robert Levine, Class of 1954, Tuck 1955

PH.985.59.17

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and inscribed, in graphite, on verso: Ralph Steiner; below that: neg. 1922; below that: pt.1981

Exhibition History

Signspotting: Twentieth-Century Photographs, Prints, and Paintings from the Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 30-August 26, 2001.

Provenance

I. Robert Levine, Greenwich, Connecticut; lent to present collection, 1985; given to present collection, 1989.

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