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Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Horace Silver
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Horace Silver

Artist Roy DeCarava (American, 1919-2009)
CultureAmerican
Date1963, printed 1991
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsOverall, Image: 8 1/2 × 11 1/4 in. (21.6 × 28.6 cm)
Overall, Support: 22 × 18 in. (55.9 × 45.7 cm)
Overall, Mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
InscribedEach signed, dated and numbered in pencil in the margin
Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank
Object number2002.15.3
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a photogravure of a man, Horace Silver, playing piano. It is blurred from the action of playing the instrument; his mouth is agape.

ProvenanceRoy DeCarava, 1991; Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, Ny.; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, 2002. Published ReferencesRoy DeCarava, _The Sound I Saw: The Jazz Photographs of Roy DeCarava_, exh. cat., Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Ny., 1983, 43, plate 28, version #42 of the same subject. Roy DeCarava, with intro. by Sherry Turner, _Roy DeCarava: Twelve Photogravures_ (Renaissance Press, 1991), 1-12. Peter Galassi, with an essay by Sherry Turner DeCarava, _Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective_, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Ny., 1996, 219, version #42 of the same subject.
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Roy DeCarava
1956, printed 1991
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Roy DeCarava
1956, printed 1991
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Roy DeCarava
1956, printed 1991
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Roy DeCarava
1950, printed 1991
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Roy DeCarava
1950, printed 1991
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Roy DeCarava
1978, printed 1991
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Roy DeCarava
1973, printed 1991
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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1979, printed 1991
Roy DeCarava
1956, printed 1991
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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1952, printed 1991