Red and Herbie Levi at the Funeral of Maurice Gaines, Harlem, New York

© The Gordon Parks Foundation

Red and Herbie Levi at the Funeral of Maurice Gaines, Harlem, New York

Currently not on view

Red and Herbie Levi at the Funeral of Maurice Gaines, Harlem, New York,

1948

Gordon Parks, 1912–2006; born Fort Scott, KS; died New York, NY; active New York, NY
2017-177

Information

Title
Red and Herbie Levi at the Funeral of Maurice Gaines, Harlem, New York
Dates

1948

Maker
Gordon Parks
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 34.5 × 26.5 cm (13 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.) sheet: 35.6 × 27.7 cm (14 × 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Hugh Leander Adams, Mary Trumbull Adams, and Hugh Trumbull Adams Princeton Art Fund
Object Number
2017-177
Place Made

North America, United States, New York, Manhattan, New York, Harlem

Signatures
Signed in marker on verso: Gordon Parks
Marks/Labels/Seals
Red stamp on verso: PHOTO BY / GORDON PARKS
Culture
American
Type
photographs, gelatin silver prints
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
coffins, figures (representations), funerals, deaths, men

The artist; Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, New York, NY; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2017.

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