Helen Levitt
New York

New York

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New York
New York
ArtistAmerican, 1913–2009
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • New York
Datec. 1945
Place depictedNew York City, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 8 13/16 in. (19.1 × 22.4 cm)
Mount: 7 11/16 × 9 1/8 in. (19.5 × 23.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1536
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[...]; The Manfred Heiting Collection; MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"New York, New York: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection," Museum of Fine Arts Houston, October 8–March 9, 2003.

"Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940–1960," Milwaukee Art Museum, January 30–April 25, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso center: Neg #7A
Inscribed in pencil, verso center: [star] ok / N.Y. © 1945
Inscribed in pencil, verso right center: V 23
Applied label, verso top right corner: [MOMA exhibition label for "In and Out of Focus", 1948]
Inscribed in pencil, bottom left corner: FROM VIKING eDITION OF / A WAY of seeing [sic] [underlined]
Inscribed in pencil, verso bottom right corner: H6.410.y
Signed in pencil, verso center: Helen Levitt
Signed in pencil, verso bottom right center: Helen Levitt

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