Arkady Shaikhet
Inauguration of the Shaturskaya Power Station

Artist Arkady Shaikhet Russian, 1898–1959

CultureRussian

Titles

Inauguration of the Shaturskaya Power Station

Date1925

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 3/4 × 6 in. (19.7 × 15.2 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/4 × 6 in. (19.7 × 15.2 cm)
Mount: 9 1/8 × 6 15/16 in. (23.1 × 17.6 cm)

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

Object number2002.2234

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"A Hard, Merciless Light. The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, April 5–August 22, 2011.

"Utopia/ Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 11–June 10, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso in pencil upper center of sheet four lines in Russian(?) and perhaps a signature,bottom edge more Russian characters and a date"1925","MH 11",recto right border of mount in ink "110MM",in pencil "56"

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