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Skeleton Man, 42nd Street Flea Circus

Artist Lisette Model (American, b. Austria, 1906 - 1983)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1942

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 10 × 13 3/4 in. (25.4 × 34.9 cm)
Overall, Mat: 35 1/16 in. (89.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number84.33

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print photograph of a very thin seated man in a top hat.

Label TextLisette Model American, b. Austria, 1906–1983 Skeleton Man, 42nd Street Flea Circus, ca. 1942 Gelatin silver print (photograph) Museum purchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund 84.33 Exhibition History"Photographs from the Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, Feb. 26 - April 23, 1989. "The Portrait in America," The Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Jan. 26 - April 8, 1990. "Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., November 5, 2003 - August 2004. "Women of the Chrysler: a 400-Year Celebration of the Arts," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., March 24 - July 18, 2010. "Photographic Histories," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, May 10 - August 17, 2014.Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson, _The Portrait in America_, exh. cat., The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., 1990, 9, 52. Brooks Johnson, _Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers on Their Art_ (New York: Aperture Foundation, 2004), 178-179.