Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Sawyer-Flood House, detail of bay window at front entry

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Artist Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908–2004)French, 1908–2004

CultureFrench

Titles

The Sawyer-Flood House, detail of bay window at front entry
from the series The Galveston That Was

Date1962

Place depictedGalveston, Texas, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 12 × 7 15/16 in. (30.5 × 20.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 11/16 × 9 9/16 in. (32.2 × 24.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum commission

Object number65.237

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed on verso, upper left corner in pencil: "54 [x'd out with red pencil]", "63 ¾", "7710-39", in red pencil: "50 [circled]", "p. 103
recto top left in pencil "50", cropping marks

On verso, brown stamp in outlined box: "Photograph by/Henri Cartier-Bresson/©1962 MAGNUM PHOTOS/15 West 47th Street, N.Y.C. 36".

Museum label: "TMOFAH 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas 77005 / Accession Number: 65-237 / Artist: HCB / Title and Date: Sawyer-Flood House / Medium and Size: photograph, 1965 / Collection: Museum purchase".

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