2.2002.1563: Window Sill
PhotographsThe black and white photograph show a section of a partially opened window and a section of the wall surrounding it. There is a curtain obscuring the upper portion of the window, it is shorter on the left side and has a second darker curtain creating a diagonal across the first curtain. The other panel of the curtain hangs just below the window sill on the right. There is a round reflection on the wall and across the sill of the window. The reflection is light colored with black crisscrossed lines and highlights the wall and the bottom left corner of window frame.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2.2002.1563
- People
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Minor White, American (Minneapolis, Minnesota 1908 - 1976 Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Title
- Window Sill
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Sound of One Hand Clapping
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1958
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, New York
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/157769
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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image: 28.5 x 21.3 cm (11 1/4 x 8 3/8 in.)
mount: 48 x 38 cm (18 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: recto of mount, below b.r. corner of image, in graphite: Minor White
- label: Removed from mat board, type written: MINOR WHITE / WINDOW SILL DAYDREAMING / July, 1958
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
- Copyright
- © The Trustees of Princeton University
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2.2002.1563
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Gu Zheng, "50 Years and 80 Thousands Photos: Harvard Art Museums' Photography Collections (Part One)", Chinese Photography (Beijing, China, 2018), Issue no. 467, p. 130, ill.
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 1110 , Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/04/2018 - 04/09/2019
Verification Level
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