Martha Graham - American Document (Puritan Love Duet) with Hawkins
Artist
Barbara Morgan
(American, 1900-1992)
CultureAmerican
Date1938, printed 1980
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 15 5/8 × 13 13/16 in. (39.7 × 35.1 cm)
Overall, Paper: 19 × 15 13/16 in. (48.3 × 40.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 25 15/16 × 22 in. (65.9 × 55.9 cm)
Overall, Paper: 19 × 15 13/16 in. (48.3 × 40.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 25 15/16 × 22 in. (65.9 × 55.9 cm)
InscribedSigned in ink at right in lower margin: "Barbara Morgan - 1938"; at left in lower margin: "Martha Graham - AMERICAN DOCUMENT - (-"Puritan Love Duet"-) with Hawkins"; on the reverse: "MARTHA GRAHAM - AMERICAN DOCUMENT - (-"Puritan Love Duet"- with Eric Hawkins) - 1938-C-1980 Barbara Morgan"
Credit LineGift of Lloyd and Janet Morgan
Object number2007.22.3
Not on view
DescriptionThis gelatin silver print is of a man and woman dancing. She is wearing a light colored gown and is kneeling in front of the man with her arms stretched out towards him. He is wearing all dark colors and is not facing the viewer.Label TextBarbara Morgan American (1900-1992) Martha Graham-American Document (Puritan Love Duet) with [Erick] Hawkins, 1938 Gelatin-silver print, printed 1980 Gift of Lloyd and Janet Morgan 2007.22.3 Martha Graham ranked among the most influential pioneers of modern dance in twentieth-century America. ProvenanceLloyd and Janet Morgan [managers of the Barbara Morgan archive], Hastings-on-Hudson, New York; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, Gift of Lloyd and Janet Morgan, 2008 Exhibition History"Martha Graham Dance Photographs by Barbara Morgan," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, April 29 - August 28, 2005 A print of this photograph "Portraying a Nation: American Portrait Photography, 1850-2010," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, August 25, 2010 - September 11, 2011.Published ReferencesIntro by Peter Bunnell, _Barbara Morgan_ (Hastings-on-Hudson: Morgan & Morgan, 1972) A print of this photograph Barbara Morgan, _Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs_ (New York: Morgan & Morgan, Inc.; 1st rev.ed. edition, 1980) ISBN: 978-0871001764 A print of this photograph
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Late Dynasty 5-early Dynasty 6, reigns of Unas or Pepy I, 2375-2287 B.C.E.
