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Movie Premiere THE HEIRESS at Cathay Circle Theater, Hollywood, ca. 1945

  • Max Yavno, American, 1911-1985

Gelatin silver print

  • 13 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (34.3 × 26.7 cm) Mount: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm) Plate: 5 1/4 inches × 5 inches (13.3 × 12.7 cm) Sheet: 10 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (27 × 21.6 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, General Endowment Fund

F76.68

Signed, in pencil, on mount, lower right: yavno

1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Shippey, L. and M. Yavno. The Los Angeles Book. Boston, 1959, no. 114 (ill.).

Max Yavno, Movie Premiere THE HEIRESS at Cathay Circle Theater, Hollywood, ca. 1945, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Endowment Fund, F76.68.