František Drtikol
The Worker

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Artist František DrtikolCzech, 1883–1961

CultureCzech

Titles

The Worker

Date1926

PlaceCzech Republic

MediumBromoil print

DimensionsImage: 11 3/8 × 8 11/16 in. (28.9 × 22.1 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 11/16 in. (28.9 × 22.1 cm)
Mount: 15 × 11 7/8 in. (38.1 × 30.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.919

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Orange label on the verso of mount: "EXHIBITED / AT / SPECIAL / EXHIBITION / IN THE STUDIO OF / CAMERA CLUB / OF / SYRACUSE / Y.M.C.A."

Yellow label on the verso of mount: "This Print was Hung / at a / LOAN EXHIBITION / of the / Kodak Park Camera / Club / Rochester, N.Y."

Gray label on the verso of mount: "THIS PRINT WAS HUNG IN A / SPECIAL EXHIBITION AT THE / BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF / ARTS AND SCIENCES, DEPART- / MENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY. / FEB-1931 / THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE / OF ARTS AND SCIENCES"

Inscribed in black, verso of mount: "IV / [signature] / Praha II / Vodilkova 7 / Czechoslovakia / The Worker / (pigmant)"

Embossed, recto of sheet, lower right: "COPYRIGHT / DRTIKOL PRAGUE"

Signed and dated in pencil, recto of mount, beneath lower right of image/sheet: "Drtikol 1926"
Also signed in black, verso of mount, upper center: "F. Drtikol"

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