About This Artwork

György Kepes
American, born Hungary, 1906–2001

Solarization, c. 1938

Gelatin silver print
33.1 x 28.1 cm
Mary L. and Leigh B. Block Endowment, 1994.320

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

AIC, "New Faces and Other Recent Acquisitions," July 11, 1997 - January 19, 1998, (David Travis and Sylvia Wolf) (Galleries 1-4).

AIC, "Taken by Design: Photographs from The Institute of Design, 1937-1971," March 2 - May 12, 2002; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 20 - October 20, 2002, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, December 7, 2002 - March 2, 2003 (David Travis and Elizabeth Siegel).

Publication History

Travis, David and Elizabeth Siegel. 2002. “Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971,” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/The University of Chicago Press. pl. 24. cat. 90.

ones, Julia. 2006. "Un art publicitaire? György Kepes au New Bauhaus, 1937-1943," Etudes Photographiques 19 (December), p. 59, fig. 9.