Object number2000.31.1

New York City (Two boys on curb)

Date1940

Artist Helen Levitt (American, 1913-2009)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (19.05 x 28.58 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 13 7/8 in. (27.94 x 35.24 cm)

Credit LineAnonymous gift

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedSigned and dated (verso, at center, in pencil): Helen Levitt c1940

InscribedInscribed (verso, at center, in pencil): N.Y.; (UR, in pencil): 29; (LLC, in pencil): Ilford

BibliographyHelen Levitt, "A Way of Seeing" (1965) ProvenanceGift from photographer to Joan Liftin.

Vassar Exhibitions

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);

Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum, et al.

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