Street Monsters

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Artist Nathan Lerner(American, 1913–1997)American, 1913–1997

CultureAmerican

Titles

Street Monsters

Date1973

MediumDye imbibition print

DimensionsImage: 19 1/2 × 14 1/8 in. (49.5 × 35.9 cm)
Sheet: 21 1/8 × 16 1/16 in. (53.7 × 40.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Kiyoko Lerner

Object number2014.857

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceThe artist, Chicago, d. 1997; by inheritance to his wife Kiyoko Lerner, Chicago, 1997; given to MFAH, 2014.
Published References "Modernist Eye: The Art and Design of Nathan Lerner" (Raleigh, NC: Gallery of Art & Design, North Carolina State University, 2000). "Nathan Lerner: A Photographic Retrospective, 1932-1979" (Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1979). "Nathan Lerner: Photographs 1932-1944" (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1995). Travis, David, Elizabeth Siegel, and Keith F. Davis, "Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971" (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2002). Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso top left in ink: 22[circled]; upper center above signature: "Street Monsters"; bottom right corner in pencil: INV 2735

verso upper center in ink: Nathan Lerner/1973

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