Gordon Parks
Storefront Women in Harlem

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Artist Gordon Parks American, 1912–2006

CultureAmerican

Titles

Storefront Women in Harlem

Date1952

Place depictedNew York, New York, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 12 1/16 × 9 7/8 in. (30.6 × 25.1 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/16 × 9 7/8 in. (30.6 × 25.1 cm)
Mount: 12 1/16 × 9 7/8 in. (30.6 × 25.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Gay Block

Object number91.1293

Not on view

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Photography

Special Collections

Photographs by African American Artists

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Photofind Gallery, Woodstock, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Our New Day Begun: African American Artists Entering the Millennium," Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Austin, February 19–May 29, 2000; African American Museum, Dallas, June 12–August 31, 2000; University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston, November 12, 2000–February 18, 2001.

"New York: Yesterday and Tomorrow," Shell and the American Landscape Museum, Houston, May 8–September 12, 2002.

"Houston Collects: African American Art," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 31–October 26, 2008.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on verso mount, center: "45" and at lower right: "PF3807". "45" is circled.

Signed and inscribed in pencil on verso mount, upper left: "Gordon Parks/ Store Front Women in Harlem, 1963".

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