About the Artwork
The Boss
1932
Prentice H. Polk
1898-1984
American
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Gelatin silver print
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 3/8 inches (24.1 × 18.7 cm) Image: 9 7/8 × 7 7/8 inches (25.1 × 20 cm)
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African American Art
Gift of Delano Willis
F1988.119
Non-commercial all standard museum
Markings
Signed in ink, lower right: P H Polk
Provenance
1989-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Lee, Key Jo. Perceptual Drift: Black Art and an Ethics of Looking. Exh. cat., The Cleveland Musem of Art. New Haven and London, 2022, pp. 76-77, p. 77 (fig. 44).
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Prentice H. Polk, The Boss, 1932, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Delano Willis, F1988.119.
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