Object number2018.37.18

Poster Shop, Times Square

Date1982

Artist Louis Clyde Stoumen (American, 1917 - 1991)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsSheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Image: 6 1/16 × 8 7/16 in. (15.4 × 21.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Claudia and Steven Schwartz in honor of Sarah Goetz, class of 2010

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, upper left corner in pencil: LS 48382 / TS pg 63 / 1800; upper right corner [vertically]: TS pg 63; lower left corner [vertically]: TS pg 63; FLLAC 2018.37.18

MarkingsOn verso, stamped with a rectangular outline: Certified Negative and Print made by / Lou Stoumen [in cursive] / From the Artist's Estate

BibliographyStoumen Louis Clyde. 1985. Times Square : 45 Years of Photography. New York: Aperture, p. 63

Vassar Exhibitions

Apocalypse Sky: Art, AIDS, and Activism in New York City, 1982-1992

DescriptionBlack and white image of two framed works with other works visible in the far background. The work on left features Ronald and Nancy Reagan's faces superimposed on the painting American Gothic with text above that reads "ICK TOGETHER... / JELLY BEANS!" The framed image depicts a tennis player from the waist down on a court with a racket in their hand with their left hand raising their dress up over their bottom.

Terms

New York

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