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Chinese Mask
Chinese Mask
Artist/Maker (British, 1904 - 1980)
Date1944; published 1945
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 8 × 7 11/16 in. (20.3 × 19.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of David A. Garfinkel, Class of 1978
Object number1983.113
Not on view
DescriptionChina 1944: A Chinese man dramatically lit as he stands between sun and shadow in Chengtu.
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Alternate Titles In a Chengdu Street
Exhibition History 2009-2011
Clinton, NY (Hamilton College). On view in Asian Studies department conference room in Kirner-Johnson building, August 21, 2009 - February 1, 2011.
Provenance 1983: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of David A. Garfinkel.
Markings Adhesive label in typeset on verso at lower center: IB. 2482A/C. BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH (MINISTRY OF / INFORMATION) CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED. / (Picture issued 1945). / IN A CHENGTU STREET. / Picture shows:- [underlined] A man's face in sunlight by a shop window; stamp in blue ink on verso at lower center: CECIL BEATON / PHOTOGRAPHY
Signature Signed with stamp in blue ink on verso at lower center: CECIL BEATON / PHOTOGRAPHY
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil on verso at lower right: "BE503"; stamped in lower center: "CECIL BEATON \ PHOTOGRAPH"; tombstone attached on lower center
Photograph by John Bentham.
Police Force
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944; published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1982.15
Mr. Chow Chung-Yuch, Chinese Scholar from Yunan Province from the "Chinese Album"
Mr. Chow Chung-Yuch, Chinese Scholar from Yunan Province from the "Chinese Album"
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944, published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.114
Character of the Chinese theater (portrait of Swen Fu-juin) from the "Chinese Album"
Character of the Chinese theater (portrait of Swen Fu-juin) from the "Chinese Album"
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944, published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.115
Ten-year-old with three-months-old sister from the "Chinese Album"
Ten-year-old with three-months-old sister from the "Chinese Album"
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944, published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.111
In the Children's Ward of a Canadian Mission Hospital from the "Chinese Album"
In the Children's Ward of a Canadian Mission Hospital from the "Chinese Album"
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944 (published 1945)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.110
Louis-Mann Fight Pictures
Louis-Mann Fight Pictures
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1938
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1982.16
General Tsou Chu-Hua, Governor of Kirin
General Tsou Chu-Hua, Governor of Kirin
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944; published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.112
Photography by David Revette.
Untitled, Philadelphia, from the portfolio “Party Pictures”
William E. Williams
Date: 1981 (published 1985)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1992.1.2
Photograph by John Bentham.
Untitled
Arthur S. Siegel
Date: 1965
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2000.5.1
Venice: The Stonemason's Yard
Venice: The Stonemason's Yard
Unknown artist
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: S2018.2.138
Photograph by John Bentham.
Open Washes
Philip Guston
Date: 1966
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1989.18
Venice: Piazza San Marco
Venice: Piazza San Marco
Unknown artist
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: S2018.2.136