Sid Grossman
Three Children on a Stairway

Three Children on a Stairway

© Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Three Children on a Stairway
Three Children on a Stairway
ArtistAmerican, 1913–1955
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Three Children on a Stairway
  • from the series Chelsea
Date1938–1939
PlaceNew York, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 4 1/4 × 3 1/8 in. (10.8 × 7.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Betty and Frederic Fleming
Object number81.119.4
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940–1960," Milwaukee Art Museum, January 30–April 25, 2010.

"A Hard, Merciless Light. The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, April 5–August 22, 2011.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top left in pencil "Chelsea II / 248.1 "

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