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)

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.