Artist
David Levinthal (American, born 1949)American, born 1949
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Untitled
- from the series Space
Date2007
MediumDye diffusion transfer print
DimensionsImage: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Sheet: 29 1/2 × 22 in. (74.9 × 55.9 cm)
Sheet: 29 1/2 × 22 in. (74.9 × 55.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor
Object number2017.189
Non exposé
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
young, television-addicted David Levinthal was entranced by the futuristic
fantasy of space travel, even as a real world race to the moon began.
Levinthal’s treatment of the theme in the late 1980s and again in 2007 makes
little attempt to mask the youthful fiction of extraterrestrials, flying
saucers, and intergalactic travel embodied in toys and nurtured by comics,
television, and films, from Buck Rogers
to Star Wars.
ProvenanceThe artist, New York; private collection; given to MFAH, 2017.
Exhibition History"Shooting the Moon: Photographs from the Museum's Collection 50 Years after Apollo 11," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 20–September 2, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in black ink, recto, lower right: David Levinthal 2007 AP
[no inscriptions verso]
[no inscriptions verso]
Signed in black ink, recto, lower right: David Levinthal 2007 AP
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