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

Couple Dancing

Artist Roy DeCarava (American, 1919-2009)

CultureAmerican

Date1956, printed 1991

MediumPhotogravure

DimensionsOverall, Support: 22 × 18 in. (55.9 × 45.7 cm)
Overall, Image: 12 1/4 × 17 7/8 in. (31.1 × 45.4 cm)

InscribedEach signed, dated and numbered in pencil in the margin

Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank

Object number2002.15.4

On View

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a photogravure of a man and woman dancing. The woman, in a fitted white dress, has her back to the camera. The suited man, whose right arm is around the waist of the woman and under her left arm, rests his right hand on her upper back.

ProvenanceRoy DeCarava, 1991; Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, Ny.; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, 2002. Exhibition History"The Sound I Saw: The Jazz Photographs of Roy DeCarava," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Ny., Jan. 20 - March 20, 1983. *This image circulated, not this object. "Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Ny., Jan. 25 - May 7, 1996; The Art Institute of Chicago, Il., June 8 - Sept. 15, 1996; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ca., Nov. 14, 1996 - Jan. 26, 1997; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Ma., Feb. 23 - May 4, 1997; The Saint Louis Art Museum, Mo., June 15 - Aug. 9, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tx., Sept. 7 - Nov. 16, 1997; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ca., Jan. 22 - April 5, 1998; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga., June 27 - Sept. 19, 1998; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 1998 - Jan. 4, 1999. *This image circulated, not this object. Published ReferencesRoy DeCarava, _The Sound I Saw: The Jazz Photographs of Roy DeCarava_, exh. cat., Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Ny., 1983, 41, pl. 26. 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, 181.