Muray, Nickolas
American (b. Hungary, 1892-1965)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Babe Ruth

ca. 1927 / print ca. 1945 (?)
gelatin silver contact print
24.3 x 19.3 cm.
Gift of the Muray family
GEH NEG: 20178
77:0188:2448A

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gallico, Paul & Muray, Nickolas. --Revealing Eye, Personalities of the 1920s.-- New York: Atheneum, 1967. p. 250.//
Muray, Nickolas. --Muray's Celebrity Portraits of the Twenties and Thirties.-- New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1978. p. 112.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 557.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"New York: 1920s-1930s", Japan, Tokyo, Mainichi Newspapers, April - October, 1988.//
"The History of Sports Photography", US, NY, New York, Laurence Miller Gallery, Inc., February 3 - March 3, 1990.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "'Babe' Ruth" "'King of Swat'" "1945" recto-(inscribed on negative) "6" "23" "7 (reversed)-.M.A"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/87, DZ, updated 1/90. See 77:189:2448 for original negative in IMP/GEH collection.

SUBJECTS:
personage, athlete / Ruth, Babe
artifact, baseball bat