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Artist/Maker
Danny Lyon
(American, born 1942)
Date1968; printed 2011
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 13/16 × 13 in. (22.4 × 33 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2019.18.53
Not on view
Collections
Additional Details
Provenance
2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Markings
Verso, lower right corner (stamp, black ink): "Printer ["K" in pencil] / BLEAK BEAUTY / Picture Date ["1968" in pencil]/ Print Date ["2011" in pencil]"
Published References
Illustrated in Danny Lyon, Conversations with the Dead, Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune (London: Phaidon, 2015), 31.
Signature
Verso, lower center (pencil)
Inscribed
Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "DLTX-29"
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