About the Artwork
A River Idyll
between 1940 and 1945
Harry Shaw
1940-1960
American
Unknown
Silver print toned gold, paper negative bromoil transfer
Image: 10 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (26 × 34.3 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of an anonymous donor
F72.205
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, on mat, below image right: [Harry B. Shaw (underlined)]
Inscribed, in pencil, on mat, below image left: A River Idyll Inscribed, in pencil, on mat, upper center, verso: Plain Silver print | Toned with gold | Paper negative Inscribed, in pencil, on mat, upper right, verso: 25 | 63-C Inscribed, on affixed label, upper left, verso: EXHIBITED | 5TH | ANNUAL | SALON | 1947 | NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | Washington D. C. Inscribed, on affixed label, upper center, verso: EXHIBITED BY | Goodyear - Akron | Photographic | Society Inscribed, on affixed label, upper right, verso: EXHIBITED | Geneva Camera Club| GENEVA, NEW YORK | ON | SENECA | Queen of the Finger Lakes Inscribed, on affixed label, upper left center, verso: NATIONAL | PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | WASHINGTON, D. C. | AWARD | Class [HONORS (in pencil)]| Date [11-10-48 (in pencil)] / GENERAL Inscribed, on affixed label, left center, verso: U.S. NATIONAL | MUSEUM | DECEMBER | 1948 | EXHIBITED | SIXTH / ANNUAL | SALON | OF THE | NATIONAL |PHOTOGRAPHIC | SOCIETY | WASHINGTON D.C. Inscribed, on affixed label, center, verso: EXHIBITED | AT | AKRON | OHIO / U.S.A. | THE | BUCKEYE | CAMERA | GUILD Inscribed, on affixed label, right center, verso: EXHIBITED AT | SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | ORGANIZED., A.D. 1846. | THE | SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION / Washington, D. C. | MONTH OF | [May, 1948 (in pencil)] Inscribed, on affixed label, lower center, verso: EXHIBITED | Bennington | Camera | Club | BENNINGTON VT Inscribed, on affixed label, lower center right, verso: EXHIBITED | AT OUR | GALLERY | THE | CLEVELAND PHOTOGRAPHIC | SOCIETY | CLEVELAND OHIO Inscribed, on affixed label, lower left, verso: Camera Guild | OF CLEVELAND Inscribed, on affixed label, lower center, verso: EXHIBITED BY THE | AKRON | CAMERA | CLUB / AKRON, OHIO. Inscribed, on affixed label, lower right, verso: Exhibited | BURLINGTON | CAMERA CLUB | VERMONT
Stamped, in black ink, on mat, upper left, verso: National Photographic Society | HARRY B. SHAW | 723 UPSHUR ST. N. W. | Washington D.C.
Provenance
1972-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Harry Shaw, A River Idyll, between 1940 and 1945, silver print toned gold, paper negative bromoil transfer. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of an anonymous donor, F72.205.
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