Artist
Sam Nhlengethwa(South African, born 1955)South African, born 1955
CultureSouth African
Titles
- Stop it Verwoerd
- from the series Glimpses of the Fifties and Sixties
Date2003
MediumPhotolithograph
DimensionsImage: 7 15/16 × 11 1/4 in. (20.1 × 28.6 cm)
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 14 15/16 in. (49.8 × 38 cm)
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 14 15/16 in. (49.8 × 38 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern in honor of Yasufumi Nakamori
Object number2011.1016
Non exposé
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Provenance[Florence Lynch Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2011.
Exhibition History"Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum's Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 27–November 8, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil, recto, below image left to right: T.P. “STOP IT VERWOERD” SAM NHLENGETHWA '03
Embossed, recto, lower right corner: [symbol for The Artists' Press, South Africa]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower left: TAP 03-45
Embossed, recto, lower right corner: [symbol for The Artists' Press, South Africa]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower left: TAP 03-45
Signed and dated below image lower right in pencil: SAM NHLENGETHWA '03
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Sam Parrish
April 8, 1968, printed c. 1968
Gelatin silver print
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