About the Artwork
Pellets from Shotgun
1961
Harold Edgerton
1903-1990
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 5 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (14.3 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 8 × 10 inches (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
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Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
1996.220
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Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, upper left: 11.821 [boxed].
Stamp, in black ink, on verso, upper left side: [stamp is in box shape] HAROLD E. EDGERTON | AUG 2 1961 | M.I.T. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Stamp, in black ink, on verso, lower right corner: [stamp is in box shape with two palm trees on left side] © 1961 [61 in pencil] Estate of | [in pencil] 11.821 | HAROLD E. EDGERTON.
Provenance
1996, Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
1996-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Harold Edgerton, Pellets from Shotgun, 1961, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, 1996.220.
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