About the Artwork
Star Shell
1943
Ruth Bernhard
1905-2006
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (19.1 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 11 × 13 7/8 inches (27.9 × 35.2 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Warren and Margot Coville
F1986.117
Reproduced with permission of the Ruth Bernhard Archive, Princeton University Art Museum. © Trustees of Princeton University
Markings
Signed and dated, in pencil, verso, lower center: Ruth Bernhard | Star shell 1943.
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Provenance
distributed by the Sustaining Print Program, the Friends of Photography (Carmel, California, USA). Warren and Margot Coville (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)
1986-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Reproduced with permission of the Ruth Bernhard Archive, Princeton University Art Museum. © Trustees of Princeton University
Ruth Bernhard, Star Shell, 1943, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Warren and Margot Coville, F1986.117.
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