Acrobats

© Estate of Val Telberg

Acrobats

Currently not on view

Acrobats,

1954

Val Telberg, American, born Russia, 1910–1995
x1982-60

Information

Title
Acrobats
Dates

1954

Maker
Val Telberg
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
34.2 x 27.8 cm (13 7/16 x 10 15/16 in.) mount: 34.7 x 28.3 cm. (13 11/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, with a matching gift from the David H. McAlpin, Class of 1920, Fund
Object Number
x1982-60
Place Made

North America, United States

Inscription
Signed in ink, lower right edge: Val Telberg Inscribed on verso: The crowd was taken near Louvre in Paris, must be 1948 or 9. Acrobats were taken at Mussel Beach, Santa Monica, when on fellowship with Huntington Hartford Foundation 1953. Montaged probably in 1954. On verso: [noted photograph was lent by photograppher to Museum of Modern Art; MoMA loan60.448; "Sense of Abstraction"
Culture
American
Type
oil paintings, black-and-white photographs, gelatin silver prints, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process, mounting
Subject
montage, men, women, groups of people, figures (representations), gymnastics

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