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

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Artist Russell Lee (American, 1903–1986)American, 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

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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