A black and white photograph of an open window with curtains.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The 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
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
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
  • 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
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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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