Levitt, Helen
American (1913-)

TITLE ON OBJECT: New York, 1939
PUBLISHED TITLE: New York, children on stoop wearing masks

1939
gelatin silver print
19.2 x 27.9 cm.
Museum Purchase: Charina Foundation Purchase Fund
GEH NEG: 43416
93:0519:0001

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 40 / 12

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Levitt, Helen & Agee, James (essay). --A Way of Seeing: Photographs of New York by Helen Levitt.-- New York: Viking Press, 1965. fig. 8.//
Phillips, Sandra S. & Hambourg, Maria Morris. --Helen Levitt.-- San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1991. pl. 8.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 616.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Recent Acquisitions: Helen Levitt", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Potter Peristyle, August 30 - September 26, 1993.//
"Insight: Women's Photographs from the Collection", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, June 24 - December 10, 1995.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "H" "Aak (?) 4, 39" "12" "40" (signed) "Helen Levitt"

copyright, Helen Levitt

NOTES: Catalogued 4/93, DZ. Title and date from --Helen Levitt--.

SUBJECTS:
people, children
dress, masks
street scene, figures in