Object number1987.53.42
Barbara Howes
Date1953
Artist
Rosalie Thorne McKenna
(American, 1918-2003)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 10 3/16 x 13 5/16 in. (25.9 x 33.8 cm)
Matted: 16 x 22 in. (40.6 x 55.9 cm)
Matted: 16 x 22 in. (40.6 x 55.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, upper center in pencil: Barbara Howes #15 / published Harper's Bazaar [underlined] April 1953; lower right in pencil: 87.53.42
MarkingsOn verso, stamped upper center: PHOTO BY: / ROLLIE MCKENNA / 438 EAST 88 STREET / NEW YORK 28, N. Y. / TEL. ENRIGHT 9-3889 / Not To Be Reproduced / Without Permission. / Please Credit With Photo; stamped center [vertically]: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED; [vertically]: THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE / REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT / THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF / R. THORNE McKENNA, / MILLBROOKE, NEW YORK; stamped lower right [vertically]: ASMP MEMBER / AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHERS; [vertically]: COPYRIGHT
BibliographyRosalie Thorne McKenna, Rollie McKenna: A Life in Photography (New York: Knopf, 1991), 256.
Variant (cropped): John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read, The Modern Poets, An American-British Anthology (McGraw-Hill, 1963), 166. ProvenanceGift of the artistDescriptionThree quarter length view of woman in skirt and jacket with dark hair and eyes, standing in front of a mottled stucco faced wall with tree branch and shadow intruding from the left
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