Julius Shulman
Installation of Mitten’s Display Letters in Bretano’s new modern store located on Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 3” Tempar Sandback Letters cemented to ledge facing.

Installation of Mitten’s Display Letters in Bretano’s new modern store located on Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 3” Tempar Sandback Letters cemented to ledge facing.

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Artist Julius Shulman (American, 1910–2009)American, 1910–2009

CultureAmerican

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Installation of Mitten’s Display Letters in Bretano’s new modern store located on Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 3” Tempar Sandback Letters cemented to ledge facing.

Date1949

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 3/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18.8 × 23.8 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.7 × 25.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Judy Nyquist

Object number2020.329

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Photography

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PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceRandy Regier; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Printed on negative, recto, lower right: COPYRIGHT 1949 MITTEN’S DISPLAY LETTERS
Inscribed in black ink, recto, bottom right: OP-107
Printed in black on applied label, verso, upper left: M-2-1 [crossed out in pencil] // MDL-107 [pencil] // Installation of MITTEN’S // DISPLAY LETTERS in Bretano’s new // modern store located on Wilshire // Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. // 3” Tempar Sandback Letters // cemented to ledge facing.
Inscribed in black ink, verso, top center edge: L-DB-12 [crossed out in pencil]

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