Roy DeCarava
Hallway

Hallway

© Sherry DeCarava, courtesy the DeCarava Archives www.decarava.org

Hallway
Hallway
ArtistAmerican, 1919–2009
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Hallway
Date1953
Place depictedUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 7/8 × 8 5/8 in. (32.7 × 21.9 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in. (35.2 × 27.8 cm)
Mount: 19 15/16 × 15 15/16 in. (50.6 × 40.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores and the National Endowment for the Arts
Object number76.269
Non exposé

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Department
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Object Type
Description


Hallway is part of an extended series that Roy DeCarava created during a yearlong Guggenheim Fellowship, the first awarded to an African American photographer. One of his most poetic pictures, Hallway was also one of DeCarava’s most personal. He told the San Francisco journalist Sam Whiting, “It was all the hallways I grew up in. They were poor, poor tenements, badly lit, narrow and confining. Hallways that had something to do with the economics of building for poor people.”



ProvenanceThe artist, Brooklyn; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"Statements: African American Art from the Museum's Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 24–September 25, 2016.

"Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 27–August 30, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black, mount verso on applied label, center: Hallway // 467 #27 // $400.00
Stamped in red ink, mount verso, center: ROY DeCARAVA // 81 HALSEY STREET // BKLYN., N.Y. 11216 // Nevins 8 - 0347
Signed in ink, recto, bottom right corner of image: DECARAVA
Signed in ink, recto, bottom right corner of image: DECARAVA

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