Bomb Pin and Tag, Kunming, China

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Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Bomb Pin and Tag, Kunming, China
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, 1917 – 1991)
Date1944 (printed 1980s)
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/2 × 18 in. (34.3 × 45.7 cm) Sheet: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2018.12.135
Not on view
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Provenance 2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Published References Illustrated in Louis Clyde Stoumen, Can’t Argue with Sunrise: A Paper Movie (Millbrae, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1975), 51; Louis Clyde Stoumen, Ordinary Miracles: The Photography of Lou Stoumen, exhibition catalogue (Los Angeles, Calif.: Hand Press, 1981), 41; Louis Clyde Stoumen, Seduced by Life: The Art of Lou Stoumen, exhibition catalogue (San Diego, Calif.: Museum of Photographic Arts, 1992), 34.
Signature Recto, lower right (black ink)
Inscribed Verso, upper left corner (pencil): "LS 8461.2"
Verso, upper left (pencil): "2500"
Verso, center left edge (pencil): [sideways] "C80-0821"
Verso, lower right corner (pencil): [crossed out] "LS 2114.6"
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