Minor White
Windowsill Daydreaming

Windowsill Daydreaming

Reproduced with permission of The Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum. © 1958 Trustees of Princeton University.

Windowsill Daydreaming
Windowsill Daydreaming
ArtistAmerican, 1908–1976
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Windowsill Daydreaming
Date1958
Place depictedRochester, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/4 × 5 15/16 in. (19.7 × 15.1 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/4 × 5 15/16 in. (19.7 × 15.1 cm)
Mount: 15 × 12 7/8 in. (38.1 × 32.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Richard S. and Dodie Otey Jackson, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2661
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceEx-collection of photographer Robert Bourdeau.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Joseph Bellows Gallery on 2/10/1983.
Exhibition History"Minor White: Poetic Form," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 13 July – 29 September 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, recto of mount, beneath lower left of mounted image/sheet: "1959"
Inscribed in pencil, verso of mount, upper left: "Bob / A moment not / in memory / Minor"
The mount is signed in pencil, lightly, beneath the lower right of mounted image/sheet: "Minor White"

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