Jack Delano
Sign in a Store near Bowling Green, Virginia

ArtistAmerican, born Ukraine, 1914–1997
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Sign in a Store near Bowling Green, Virginia
  • Sign on a store near Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia
DateJune 1941, printed 1976
Place depictedBowling Green, Virginia, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/16 × 13 1/2 in. (23 × 34.3 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/16 × 13 15/16 in. (28.1 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky
Object number76.385
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Progue, c/o U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C., August 1–September 30, 1989.

"Introducing America to Americans: Depression-era Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, June 10–September 9, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso lower right in pencil reading vertically "RS 53142[underlined / F33-21002 / M5"
bottom right in pencil "Jack Delano"
verso center a stamp reading vertically "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"

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