Date
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Signed and dated verso in black marker: 'R.K. Metzger 1964"
Inscribed verso in black maker: middle left, "A"; center middle: "B"; middle right: "C"; upper right "380 A"
Stamped verso in ink, middle left: "Product of Masonite Research"; center middle: "E. STD"; middle right: (illegible)
Verso label, upper right, "Art Institute of Chicago"
Credit Line
Gift of Dirk Lohan
Reference Number
1988.542
Extended information about this artwork
Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 456, cat. 380.
Wood, James N. and Teri J. Edelstein. 1997. “The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide.” Publications Department of the Art Institute of Chicago. p 187.
Wood, James N. 2003. “The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide - Revised Edition.” Publications Department of the Art Institute of Chicago. p 187.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,” May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Industrial Effects: Twentieth Century Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” July 24-October 17, 1993.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs by the Score: Personal visions twenty-some years apart,” October 7, 2006-January 14, 2007 (David Travis)
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