Object number1998.9.10

The Cop Hunts a Culprit, New York City

Date1915

Artist Lewis Wickes Hine (American, 1874-1940)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsSight: 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (11.43 x 16.51 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alverta Van Dusen Lewis, class of 1938, in memory of her husband C. McKenzie Lewis, Jr.

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedInsribed(Verso, ): also in “Homes”/ The Cop hunts a culprit/ N.Y.City 1915 Inscribed(Verso, Stamp): Hastings-on-Hudson GEH neg 3712

BibliographyModern Metropolis, (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2002), p. 12 repr. Steinorth, 1996 p. 76

Vassar Exhibitions

Modern Metropolis

Naked City: Photographs from Vassar College's Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Exhibition HistoryTampa, Florida, Florida Museum of Photograhpic Arts, “Naked City: Photographs from Vassar College’s Frences Lehman Loeb Art Center,” November 18, 2010-January 29, 2011 (no publication);

Poughkeepsie, NY, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Modern Metropolis," April 5 - June 16, 2002. (see below)
DescriptionFrom: "New York Street Life" Series. Also known as Cop & Kids, New York City, 1912.
Matted with 1998.9.12.

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