Russell Lee
Square Dancing at Home, Pie Town, New Mexico

ArtistAmerican, 1903–1986
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Square Dancing at Home, Pie Town, New Mexico
  • Jigger at the square dance. Pie Town, New Mexico
DateJune 1940, printed 1976
Place depictedPie Town, New Mexico, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/2 × 10 1/16 in. (34.3 × 25.6 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky
Object number76.408
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Progue, c/o U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C., August 1–September 30, 1989.

"Introducing America to Americans: Depression-era Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, June 10–September 9, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top right in pencil "RS 53142[underlined] / F34-36912"
bottom right corner "Russell Lee"
verso center a stamp[upside down] "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"

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