Skip to main content
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2008.
Girl Playing Recorder
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2008.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2008.

Girl Playing Recorder

Artist Barbara Morgan (American, 1900-1992)
CultureAmerican
Date1945
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 13 3/8 × 9 11/16 in. (34 × 24.6 cm)
Overall, Mat: 22 × 18 in. (55.9 × 45.7 cm)
InscribedVerso: Artists stamp, "Girl Playing Recorder, 1945, Barbara Morgan, Individually printed-1972, B. Bill, and dimensions.
Credit LineGift of Joyce F. and Robert B. Menschel
Object number2007.12.70
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis gelatin silver print is of a young girl sitting on a large slanted boulder playing the recorder. She is wearing shorts and a T-shirt and there is a lake in the background.

ProvenanceCollection of Robert B. and Joyce F. Menschel, New York; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, Gift of Joyce F. and Robert B. Menschel, 2007