About the Artwork
Thatching an English Cottage
between 1945 and 1947
Harry Shaw
1940-1960
American
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Bromide print from paper negative
Image: 10 × 12 7/8 inches (25.4 × 32.7 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of an anonymous donor
F72.234
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
Signed, in pencil, on mat, lower right: Harry B. Shaw
Inscribed, in pencil, on mat, lower left: Thatching; affixed label, in black type, lower right: THATCHING AN ENGLISH COTTAGE | Bromide print from paper negative | by | Harry B. Shaw Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, upper center, verso: Bromide print from | paper negative | 3rd [undicipherable] Camera Guild 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, cnter, 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, left 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, left center, verso: Camera Guild | OF CLEVELAND Inscribed, on affixed label, lower left, verso: EXHIBITED BY THE | AKRON | CAMERA | CLUB | AKRON, OHIO. Inscribed, on affixed label, lower right, verso: Exhibited | BURLINGTON | CAMERA CLUB | VERMONT
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1972-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Harry Shaw, Thatching an English Cottage, between 1945 and 1947, bromide print from paper negative. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of an anonymous donor, F72.234.
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