Untitled [Coastal pylons]
Untitled [Coastal pylons]

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Untitled [Coastal pylons],

1925

Ernestine Shepard, American, active 1920s
CHW S3520 m

Information

Title
Untitled [Coastal pylons]
Dates

1925

Maker
Ernestine Shepard
Medium
Platinum print?
Dimensions
image: 8.9 × 11.5 cm (3 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.) sheet: 10.4 × 12.5 cm (4 1/8 × 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Archives of the Clarence H. White School of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum
Object Number
CHW S3520 m
Place Made

North America, United States, New York, New York

Inscription
Signed in graphite on sheet below image, lower left: Ernestine Shepard
Type
photographs, black-and-white photographs
Techniques
tipping in, black-and-white photography
Subject
marines (visual works), water, wet docks

Created by Ernestine Shepard, the artist.; ownership assumed by Clarence H. White School of Photography, between 1914 to 1942; ownership assumed by Clarence H. White Jr., 1942 [1]; by descent to Clarence H. White Jr.’s widow, Ruth Royer White, 1978 [2]; bequest, to Princeton University Art Museum, 1983 [3].

Notes:

[1] On the occasion of the closing of the School.
[2] On the occasion of Clarence H. White Jr.’s death.
[3] Carried out by Ruth Royer White on behalf of Clarence H. White Jr.

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