The Clark Sisters in Front of Their Church

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© Lewis Watts. Image courtesy of Light Work, Syracuse, NY. For educational purposes only.
The Clark Sisters in Front of Their Church
© Lewis Watts. Image courtesy of Light Work, Syracuse, NY. For educational purposes only.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1946)
Publisher
Date1996
MediumSilver gelatin print
DimensionsImage: 13 7/16 × 8 5/8 in. (34.1 × 21.9 cm) Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in. (35.2 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, The Wynant J. Williams '35 Art Collection Fund
Object number2020.8.18
Not on view
Description"Lewis Watts is a photographer and professor of art at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a long-standing interest in African American history in the Bay Area and nationally. His parents’ southern background enlightens much of his research into the great migration from the rural South to the urban North. Lewis began photographing the Fillmore in the early 1990s, and put together the archival photographs for the Fillmore Center’s Fillmore Historical Panel Project." (SOURCE: Light Work, Syracuse, NY)

Additional Details

Provenance 2020: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Light Work, Syracuse, NY.
Markings No markings noted.
Signature Signed "Lewis Watts" on verso at lower right in pencil.
Inscribed No inscriptions noted.
Study for oil of Ezra Pound (recto and verso)
Study for oil of Ezra Pound (recto and verso)
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Object number: 1996.10
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Untitled (Design on the back of an envelope)
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