Date
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Signed recto, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Yas Ishimoto"; blind stamped recto, lower left: "PRINTED BY / YAS ISHIMOTO" [encircled]; inscribed verso, upper left, upside-down, in graphite: "888"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "75" [encircled]
Dimensions
Image: 18.1 × 25.4 cm (7 3/16 × 10 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Yasuhiro and Shigeru Ishimoto
Reference Number
1999.112
Extended information about this artwork
Westerbeck, Colin. 1999. “Yasuhiro Ishimoto: A Tale of Two Cities.” Exh. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 74.
Travis, David and Elizabeth Siegel. 2002. “Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937–1971,” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/University of Chicago Press. p. 116, cat. 70, pl. 93.
Art Institute of Chicago, “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)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Yasuhiro Ishimoto: A Tale of Two Cities,” May 8-September 12, 1999. (Colin Westerbeck)
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