Untitled From Facing New York
Artist
Bruce Gilden
(American, born 1946)
CultureAmerican
Date1989
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 13 x 19 1/4 in. (33 x 48.9 cm)
Overall, Support: 15 15/16 × 19 1/4 in. (40.5 × 48.9 cm)
Overall, Support: 15 15/16 × 19 1/4 in. (40.5 × 48.9 cm)
InscribedWritten in pencil on the verso: "NYC 1989 3/20" in the lower left; Signed, LR: "Bruce Gilden".
Credit LineMuseum purchase, Horace W. Goldsmith and Art Purchase Funds
Object number92.46
Not on view
DescriptionThis gelatin silver print is a New York street scene with an elderly woman in the foreground who wears spectacles and a rain cape and print dress. Behind the elderly woman and to her proper right is a woman with a cigarette in her mouth; she is holding a drink can, a match and matchpad; she is wearing a denim outfit. The upper stories of a building appear in the background.Label TextBruce Gilden American (b. 1946) Untitled from Facing New York, 1989 Gelatin-silver print Purchase, Horace W. Goldsmith and Art Purchase Funds 92.46 Edited By: GLY Edited Date: 11/07/2000 Approved By: GLY Approval Date: 11/07/2000Exhibition History"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. Published ReferencesBruce Gilden, FACING NEW YORK (Manchester England: Cornerhouse Publications, 1992).
19th century
Elisabeth Hase
