Object number1988.10

Untitled (Coney Island - My Legs)

Datec. 1947

Artist Sid Grossman (American, 1913-1955)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 x 8 in. (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Sheet: 8 3/8 x 8 in. (21.3 x 20.3 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Christopher R. Tunnard Fund in memory of Lydia Evans Tunnard, class of 1936

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedOn verso, signed lower center in ink: SidGrossman

InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, upper center edge in pencil: 20.6a(b) - Coney Island img negs D; lower right corner in ink: 8 1/16 x 7 15/16 / 88.10

ProvenanceEstate of the artist
Purchased from Photofind Gallery

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DescriptionA black and white image of a man from the thighs up wearing a bathing suit and standing in the sand on a beach. One of his arms is gripped at the wrist by a person outside the frame. He supports a man sitting on his shoulders; only the man's thighs are visible.

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