Title: | Modern art |
Description: | Two girls with smocks painting at easels, probably in nursery school at housing project (Glenwood Houses) at or near 1660 Ralph Avenue. Caption on verso: "Modern Art: Paula Sackowitz, 3, works at a non-objective painting while Lynn Savad, also 3, looks on and, like the average citizen, wonders what the artist's abstraction is supposed to represent." |
Date: | 1952 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Flatlands (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Kruh, Johnny. |
More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Jan. 20, 1952; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
Collection: | Housing [4]
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Subject: |
Girls [5] Nursery schools [6] Painting [7] Public housing [8] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library. |
ID: | HOUS 0093 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/8b0fa38219648db0fbe59091887f2452&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Flatlands+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/g/Girls
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/n/Nursery schools
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Painting
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing