Alexander Lapin
Foremost Worker

Foremost Worker
Foremost Worker
Foremost Worker
ArtistRussian, 1945–2012
CultureRussian
Titles
  • Foremost Worker
Date1983
PlaceRussia
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 9 × 6 11/16 in. (22.9 × 17 cm)
Mount: 10 9/16 × 7 15/16 in. (26.8 × 20.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Richard S. and Dodie Otey Jackson in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker on the occasion of her retirement
Object number2014.1053
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; Lucian Perkins; [Naila Alexander, New York]; purchased by Richard S. Jackson and Dodie Otey Jackson, Houston; given to MFAH, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso of mount top right in pencil: AL-031; upper right: Alexander / Lapin; center in ink: "[Russian]" / in pencil: Front Rank / Worker; right edge reading vertically in pencil words in Russian; left edge dimensions and arrows pointing top and bottom; bottom left corner: [illegible]
verso of mount center in ink: © [in Russian] 1983
recto incised bottom right corner of image: ala 83

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