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Artist/Maker
Danny Lyon
(American, born 1942)
Date1968; printed 2016
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 13/16 × 12 15/16 in. (22.4 × 32.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2018.12.79
Not on view
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Additional Details
Provenance
2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Markings
Verso (stamp, black ink with pencil): "Printer U [in pencil] / BLEAK BEAUTY / Picture Date 1968 [in pencil]/ Print Date 2016 [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), 96.
Signature
Verso, lower center (pencil): "Danny Lyon"
Inscribed
Verso, lower left (pencil): "DLTX-95"
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