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Modotti, Tina
American (b. Italy, 1896-1942)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Woman carrying basket on head
PUBLISHED TITLE: Woman with Basket by River, ca. 1929

ca. 1929
gelatin silver print
9.9 x 7.7 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 23289
74:0061:0168

Lowe, Sarah M. --Tina Modotti: Photographs.-- New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995. pl. 97.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Tina Modotti: Gli Anni Luminosi", Italy, Pordenone July 11 - September 27, 1992.//
"Tina Modotti: Photographs", US, PA, Philadelphia - November 26, 1995.//
"Modernists in New Mexico", US, CT, Stamford September 27 - December 27, 1996.//
"Modotti and Weston: Mexicanidad", US, NY, Rochester February 15 - May 4, 1997.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in ink) "Isn't the lady grand?" (rubberstamp) "Edward Weston Collection"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/87, DZ. Published title and date from --Tina Modotti: Photographs--. "The final months of 1929 were to be, for the most part, Modotti's las as an active photographer. In late summer, she traveled south to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and photographed, perhaps for as long as a month, the women of Tehuantepec at work..." [Sarah M. Lowe, --Tina Modotti Photographs--, p. 42] "On the back of this photograph, Modotti wrote, 'Isn't this woman grand?'" [Therese Mulligan, 1/97]

SUBJECTS:
people, carrying
landscape, river

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