Joseph Schwartz
First Watts Festival

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Artist Joseph Schwartz (American, 1913–2013)American, 1913–2013

CultureAmerican

Titles

First Watts Festival

Date1965

Place depictedLos Angeles, California, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 18 × 12 3/4 in. (45.7 × 32.4 cm)
Mount: 20 1/8 × 14 1/2 in. (51.1 × 36.8 cm)
Mat: 24 × 20 1/4 in. (61 × 51.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Pilara Family Foundation

Object number2024.953

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Michael Shapiro Photography, San Francisco]; purchased by Pilara Foundation, San Francisco, 2006; given to MFAH, 2024.
Exhibition History"L.A. Unstaged: Three Decades of Folk Photography by Joe Schwartz", Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, December 1, 2005–April 2, 2006.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed in pencil on black mount, lower right

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