Frederick Sommer
Glass

Glass

© The Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation

Glass
Glass
ArtistAmerican, born Italy, 1905–1999
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Glass
Date1943
Place depictedUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 5/8 × 9 9/16 in. (19.3 × 24.3 cm)
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 9 9/16 in. (19.3 × 24.3 cm)
Mount: 12 1/2 × 14 3/8 in. (31.8 × 36.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2324
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenanceartist estate, Prescott; Jeffrey Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, on 1/10/1991.
Exhibition History"Frederick Sommer at Seventy-Five", The Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, 1980.

"American Vision: Photographers from the West, Selections from the Manfred Heiting Collection purchased by the Brown Foundation for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from August 23-February 1, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, recto of mount, lower center: "MFS.202.X"
Signed in pencil, verso of mount, center: "Frederick Sommer"

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