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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Artist/Maker (American, 1901 - 1994)
Date1938
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsComposition: 13 1/2 × 10 5/8 in. (34.3 × 27 cm) Sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 3/4 in. (34.9 × 27.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Object number1969.12.1
Not on view

Additional Details

Alternate Titles Untitled from the "Pittsburgh" series
Exhibition History 2007
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Photographs by Silvia Saunders," June 21 - September 16, 2007 (no catalog);

1966
Clinton, NY (Edward W. Root Art Center, Hamilton College). "Photographs by Silvia Saunders," October 16 - November 13, 1966 (no cat).
Provenance 1969: Hamilton College (Edward W. Root Art Center), by gift of the artist.
Markings Rectangular ink stamp [blue] on verso, at lower left: PHOTOGRAPH BY / SILVIA SAUNDERS / 37 EAST 28TH STREET / NEW YORK CITY; adhesive exhibition label from Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY with typewritten information including: Silvia Saunders / PITTSBURGH #42 / [size] / photograph / HC. 243 Gift of Miss Silvia Saunders
Published References Edward Steichen, U.S. CAMERA 1939 (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1939), p. 132
Signature Signed in blue ink on verso at lower left, above artist's stamp: Silvia Saunders
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil on verso at upper right: 15 [cut off by edge of sheet]; in ink at lower left, below artist's stamp: NO. 3 [scratched out with pencil] HC. 243 [in pencil]; in pencil at lower center: Pittsburgh 42 [encircled]; in pencil at lower right: SS
Untitled from the "Pittsburgh" series
Silvia Saunders
Date: c. 1938
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.12.2
Untitled from the "Pittsburgh" series
Silvia Saunders
Date: c. 1938
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.12.4
Silvia Saunders
Date: c. 1938
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.12.5
Silvia Saunders
Date: c. 1938
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.12.3
Untitled from the "Pittsburgh" series
Silvia Saunders
Date: c. 1938
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.12.7
Photograph by John Bentham.
Silvia Saunders
Date: c. 1938
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.12.6
Untitled from the "Root Glen and Kirkland Glen" series
Silvia Saunders
Date: c. 1931-1937
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.8
Untitled from the "Clinton Scenes" series
Silvia Saunders
Date: c. 1931-1937
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.6
Untitled from the "Root Glen and Kirkland Glen" series (rows of trees in snow)
Silvia Saunders
Date: c. 1931-1937
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.15
Untitled from the "Root Glen and Kirkland Glen" series (Evergreen with snow)
Silvia Saunders
Date: c. 1931-1937
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.13
Untitled (possibly from the "Clinton Scenes" or "Root Glen and Kirkland Glen" series)
Silvia Saunders
Date: c. 1931-1937
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.14
Untitled (Tree) (possibly from the "Clinton Scenes" series)
Silvia Saunders
Date: c. 1931-1937
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.16