Untitled

Photography and Media

c. 1931

George Platt Lynes
American, 1907–1955

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: George Platt Lynes
Title: Untitled
Place: East Orange (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1925–1936
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Stamped recto, on window matte, lower right, below image, in black ink: "G. P. LYNES"; inscribed recto, on mount, lower center, in graphite: "2 [encircled]"; verso unchecked
Dimensions: Image: 16.5 × 11.7 cm (6 1/2 × 4 5/8 in.); Mount: 30.5 × 20.8 cm (12 1/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean Levy and the Estate of Julien Levy
Reference Number: 1988.157.48

Travis, David. 1976. “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget.” Exh. cat. p. 50, cat. 76.

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)
New York, New York, The Equitable Gallery, “Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery,” August 13–October 31, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Human Form Divine: The Body as Seen by the Camera,” February 8–June 1, 2003. (Colin Westerbeck)
Art Institute of Chicago, “In the Vernacular,” February 6–May 31, 2010. (Greg Harris)

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