Levitt, Helen
American (1913-)

TITLE ON OBJECT: New York City
PUBLISHED TITLE: New York City [street drawing]

1938
gelatin silver print
23.2 x 15.5 cm.
Museum Purchase: Charina Foundation Purchase Fund
GEH NEG: 43413
93:0522:0001

NON-GEH NUMBERS: R307 / 4

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Levitt, Helen & Agee, James (essay). --A Way of Seeing: Photographs of New York by Helen Levitt.-- New York: Viking Press, 1965. fig. 4.//
Levitt, Helen & Coles, Robert (essay). --In The Street: Chalk Drawings and Messages, New York City 1938-1948.-- Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987. p. 75.//
Phillips, Sandra S. & Hambourg, Maria Morris. --Helen Levitt.-- San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1991. pl. 13.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 617.//

INSCRIPTION: mount verso-(in ink) "N.Y.C. 1938" (in pencil) "R307" "4 (in square)" (in ink) (signed) "Helen Levitt"

copyright, Helen Levitt

NOTES: Catalogued 4/93, DZ. Title from --Helen Levitt--. Dated "c. 1939" in --Helen Levitt--.

SUBJECT: artifact, chalk drawing