Ruth Bernhard
Metropolis

Metropolis

Reproduced with permission of The Ruth Bernhard Archive, Princeton University Art Museum. © 1934 Trustees of Princeton University.

Metropolis
Metropolis
ArtistAmerican, born Germany, 1905–2006
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Metropolis
Date1934
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 7/16 × 13 1/4 in. (26.5 × 33.7 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/16 × 13 1/4 in. (26.5 × 33.7 cm)
Mount: 10 7/16 × 13 1/4 in. (26.5 × 33.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Joan Morgenstern in honor of Jean L. Karotkin
Object number2005.1495
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
Provenance[Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco]; purchased by Joan Morgenstern, Houston, October 15, 1987; given to MFAH, 2005.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked on verso mount, upper left: Metropolis / ... (illegible) / Metropolis 1934 / [signature]
Marked in pencil on verso mount: R Bernhard

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