Untitled (New York City) Masks / Helen Levitt

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Accession Number: 2013/2.155
Title: Untitled (New York City) Masks
Artist: Helen Levitt
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: 1913-2009
Medium and Support: toned gelatin silver print on paper
Object Creation Date: 1942; printed 1993
Credit Line: Gift from the Collection of David S. Rosen MD, MPH
Inscription: signed, titled and dated in pencil, verso; "NYC 1941, Helen Levitt, Universal"
Dimensions: 27.94 x 35.56 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Physical Description: Three kids wearing masks on the front steps of a house.
Primary Keywords: houses; masks (costume); offspring
Secondary Keywords: buildings and the land; costume; costume by function; dwellings; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by family relationship; residential structures; single built works; single built works by function; single built works by specific type
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 3474 x 2340
File Size: 285 KB
Record: 2013/2.155
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.155/2013_2.155.jpg

In public portfolios: 0 - Levinson, w17 - Intro in Judaic Studies (22); 0 - Neis, W17 - History of Jewish Visual Culture (24); A - Horror Film (100); American Jews since 1945 (20); B&W street photography - a study room selection (16); Children and childhood (267); Family (161); Hetzel, f16 - street photography (23); Home (131); Horror (123); Jewish photographers for DDM (32); New York City (127)

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Full citation: "Untitled (New York City) Masks; Helen Levitt." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.155/2013_2.155.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.