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

Night Feeding

Artist Roy DeCarava (American, 1919-2009)
CultureAmerican
Date1973, printed 1991
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsOverall, Support: 22 × 18 in. (55.9 × 45.7 cm)
Overall, Image: 11 × 8 3/8 in. (27.9 × 21.3 cm)
InscribedEach signed, dated and numbered in pencil in the margin
Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank
Object number2002.15.6
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a photogravure of a woman, with her face illuminated, gazing at a child in her arms who is breast feeding.

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, with intro. by Sherry Turner, _Roy DeCarava: Twelve Photogravures_ (Renaissance Press, 1991), 1-12.
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
1978, printed 1991
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Roy DeCarava
1952, 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
1963, printed 1991
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Roy DeCarava
1979, 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
1978, printed 1991
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Roy DeCarava
1950, printed 1991
Roy DeCarava
1956, printed 1991
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2006