Poet's (Conrad Aiken) Garden, New York City / André Kertész
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- Accession Number
- 2000/2.16
- Title
- Poet's (Conrad Aiken) Garden, New York City
- Artist
- André Kertész
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1894-1985
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1950
- Credit Line
- Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick
- Inscription
- Inscribed in graphite, verso, top center: "Conrad Aiken/ -garden/ July 10 - 1950."
- Signed in graphite, verso, center: "A Kertesz"
- Inscribed, verso, lower left, in graphite: [indecipherable]
- Stamped, verso, bottom center, in violet ink: c Photo By/ANDRÉ [sic] KERTÉsz [sic]"
- Dimensions
- 25.2 cm x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 in. x 7 15/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Physical Description
- A decapitated sculpture of a human head sits peacefully atop a stone pile. In the front of the photo stretches a stem bursting with floral blooms while flora and fauna seep out rom the cracks of the rocks in the foreground.
- Subject Matter
- Sculptures in a garden.
- Secondary Keywords
- biological components
- buildings and the land
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- inorganic material
- landscapes (environments)
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- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
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- rock
- rock by form
- sculpture
- sculpture by subject type
- settlements and landscapes
- the human body
- upper body
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1741 x 2193
- File Size
- 508 KB
- Record
- 2000/2.16
- Link to this Item
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"Poet's (Conrad Aiken) Garden, New York City; André Kertész." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2000-sl-2.16/2000_2.16.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.