About the Artwork
Night's Curtain
1906
Wilbur Porterfield
1873-1958
American
Unknown
Gum print
Image: 10 3/8 × 13 7/16 inches (26.3 × 34.1 cm) Mount: 20 1/16 × 16 inches (51 × 40.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Warren and Margot Coville
1998.118
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Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, lower left: Night's Curtain Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, lower right: 1906 Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, upper right, verso: 651.209:41 | B.M.D 1942 | BHD | Photo Guild | R & M Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, lower left corner, verso; 51 [encircled] M.L.J.
Stamp, in black ink, upper left corner, verso: THE BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY | ALBRIGHT ART GALLERY | BUFFALO, N.Y.
Provenance
(Swann Galleries, New York, New York, USA)
1993-1998, Warren and Margot Coville (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)
1998-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Wilbur Porterfield, Night's Curtain, 1906, gum print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Warren and Margot Coville, 1998.118.
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