Light Drawing with Folded Paper
- Date
- 1942, printed 1976
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 18 3/4 x 12 1/8 in. (47.6 x 30.8 cm)
sheet: 19 7/8 x 15 in. (50.5 x 38.1 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Morton D. May
- Rights
- © Estate of Nathan Lerner / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Object Number
- 272:1980
NOTES
An array of geometric shapes cut from paper is folded upright and illuminated with in-tense raking light, setting up a dynamic interaction between bright and dark, form and shadow. Nathan Lerner was associated with the Institute of Design in Chicago. Its photography program, founded in 1937 by the German émigré László Moholy-Nagy, was widely influential for disseminating avant-garde visual ideas in the postwar period.
Provenance
- 1980
Morton D. May, St. Louis, MO
1980 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, gift of Morton D. May
Notes:
[1] Letter acknowledging gift to Museum from Judith Weiss to Morton May, September 3, 1980 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of a Meeting of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, September 19, 1980.
Morton D. May, St. Louis, MO
1980 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, gift of Morton D. May
Notes:
[1] Letter acknowledging gift to Museum from Judith Weiss to Morton May, September 3, 1980 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of a Meeting of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, September 19, 1980.
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