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Artist/Maker
Lewis Watts
(American, born 1946)
Publisher
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
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.
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