Date
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Unmarked recto; stamped verso, upper center, in black ink: "JULIEN LEVY GALLERY, INC. / 15 EAST 57th STREET / NEW YORK CITY"; inscribed verso, center, in graphite: "Näherin" / Alice Lex / Berlin-Charlottenburg 5 / Dernburgstr. 25"
Dimensions
Image/paper: 16.7 × 11.7 cm (6 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean Levy and the Estate of Julien Levy
Reference Number
1988.157.40
Extended information about this artwork
Travis, David. 1976. “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget.” Exh. cat. p. 47, cat. 69.
Teitelbaum, Matthew. 1992. “Montage and Modern Life 1919-1942.” Exh. cat. The Institute of Contempoary Art, Boston. p.10
Schaffner, Ingrid and Lisa Jacobs. 1998. “Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery.” Exh. cat. The MIT Press. p. 140 pl. 49
Clarke, Jay A., and Stephanie D’Alessandro, Carola Kupfer, Mark Pascale, Virginia Voedisch. 2002. “Portfolio.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 28, no. 1. p. 96-97, cat. 13.
Matthew S. Witkovsky et al., “The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media,” eds. Antawan I. Byrd, Elizabeth Siegel, and Carl Fuldner, pl. 197, p. 213 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2023).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget,” December 11, 1976–February 20, 1977; traveled to the International Center of Photography, New York, April 21-May 29, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 4-December 18 1977; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 13-Ferbruary 26, 1978; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, March 16-April 30, 1978; and Cincinnati Art Museum, November 17-December 24, 1978. (David Travis)
Boston, Massachusetts, Institute of Contemporary Art, “Montage and Modern Life: 1919–1939,” April 7–June 7, 1992; traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, August 19–October 18, 1992; and Brussels, Belgium, Les Expositions du Palais des Beaux Arts/De Tentoostellingen van het Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, November 3, 1992–January 3, 1993.
Akron, Ohio, Akron Art Museum, “A History of Women Photographers,” September 6–November 2, 1997; traveled to The New York Public Library, October 19, 1996–January 4, 1997; Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, February 13–May 11, 1997; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, June 7–August 10, 1997.
New York, New York, The Equitable Gallery, “Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery,” August 13–October 31, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Pieced Together: Photomontage From the Collection,” May 22–September 19, 2004. (Elizabeth Siegel)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photography on Display: Modern Treasures,” May 9–September 13, 2009.
Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, “Encounters with the 1930s,” October 2, 2012–January 7, 2013.
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Field Guide to Photography and Media,” Nov. 10, 2022–Apr. 10, 2023.
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