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

Lingerie

Artist Roy DeCarava (American, 1919-2009)

CultureAmerican

Date1950, printed 1991

MediumPhotogravure

DimensionsOverall, Support: 18 × 22 in. (45.7 × 55.9 cm)
Overall, Image: 7 1/2 × 11 3/16 in. (19.1 × 28.4 cm)

InscribedEach signed, dated and numbered in pencil in the margin

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

Object number2002.15.2

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a photogravure of four boys in white shirts outside of a building. From the right, a boy sits on a banister of the main stairway to the building; a boy wearing a tie stands in the window; a younger boy, with arms stretched upward in short sleeves, plays on the ground with a rope attached to the landing of a fire escape; another boy in short sleeves leans from the left stairway to the fire escape.

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.