Martha Graham - El Penitente - (Solo Hawkins-El Flagellante)
Artist
Barbara Morgan
(American, 1900-1992)
CultureAmerican
Date1940, printed 1980
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 18 1/4 × 13 3/4 in. (46.4 × 34.9 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 7/8 × 15 13/16 in. (50.5 × 40.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 7/8 × 15 13/16 in. (50.5 × 40.2 cm)
InscribedSigned in ink at right in lower margin: "Barbara Morgan - 1940"; at left in lower margin: "MARTHA GRAHAM - EL PENITENTE"; signed in ink on the reverse: "MARTHA GRAHAM - EL PENITENTE - 1940 - (1987) (-ERICK HAWKINS) Barbara Morgan"; Copyright dated on the reverse: 1987
Credit LineGift of Lloyd and Janet Morgan
Object number2007.22.2
Not on view
DescriptionThis gelatin silver print is of a man jumping into the air with his legs bent behind him. He is wearing pants and no shirt. He is stretching a piece of rope above his head with both of his hands.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 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
