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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera-2006.
Gang, Coney Island
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera-2006.

Gang, Coney Island

Artist Ken Heyman (American, born 1930)
CultureAmerican
Date1961
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 10 1/2 × 16 3/8 in. (26.7 × 41.6 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Inscribed(KH-216) All of the photographs are signed, dated and titled in graphite, artist credit stamp on verso.;
Credit LineGift of Dr. Donald and Alice Lappe
Object number2005.29.15
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a vintage gelatin silver print of a man, a women and a child on a blanket at Coney Island. A man with a tattoo on his forearm lays back and a women is beside him on her knees. Just the women's stomach is showing. In between them is a child peeking out from under another blanket.

ProvenanceDr. Donald and Alice Lappe, Salt Lake City, UT[through photography collector Michael Mattis]; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Gift of Dr. Donald and Alice Lappe, 2005