John Clarence O'Leary Simms
The Red Baron

CultureMexican
Titles
  • The Red Baron
  • El Baron Roja
Date1979
PlaceVeracruz, Veracruz, Mexico
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 5/8 × 9 9/16 in. (24.4 × 24.3 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in. (35.2 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Houston Hispanic community and the Wortham Foundation, The Brown Foundation, Inc., the Frees Foundation, and the Comite Patriotico Mexicano
Object number91.192
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenancePedro Meyer, Mexico City; purchased by MFAH, 1991.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
in pencil on verso upper left "87".
Signed and inscribed in pencil on verso sheet, lower left: "O'Leary" and at lower right: " 'EL BARON ROJO'/ VERACRUZ, VERACRUZ/ 1979".

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