Frederick Sommer
Circumnavigation of the Blood

Circumnavigation of the Blood

© The Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation

Circumnavigation of the Blood
Circumnavigation of the Blood
ArtistAmerican, born Italy, 1905–1999
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Circumnavigation of the Blood
Date1950
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 3/4 × 10 3/8 in. (17.1 × 26.4 cm)
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 11 3/4 in. (23.9 × 29.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2321
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceArtist, Prescott; ex-collection Michael Mattis, Scarsdale.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Michael Mattis Collection on 1/5/1990.
Exhibition History"Photography of the Fifties", Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 1980; "Venus, Jupiter & Mars - The Photographs of Frederick Sommer", Delaware Art Museum, 1980;
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil verso of mount upper left: "Circumnavigation of the Blood"; center right: "Frederick Sommer 1950".
Possible signature in pencil, verso of mount: "Frederick Sommer 1950"

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