Talmud Class
Margaret Bourke-White, American, 1904 - 1971
1938
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 9 3/4 × 13 1/8 in. (24.7 × 33.3 cm)
Mount: 13 7/8 × 17 1/16 in. (35.2 × 43.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund
2008.64.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in ink, on mount, upper center margin: 3 1/4; inscribed, in ink, on mount, left center margin: 3 5/8; inscribed, in ink, on mount, right center margin: 3 5[rest of inscription cropped, probably 3 5/8]; inscribed, in ink, lower center margin: 3 1/4; stamped, in red ink, on reverse of mount, upper center: PHOTO BY / MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE / COURTESY LIFE MAGAZINE / NOT FOR PUBLICATION; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse of mount, upper right: YE1207
Course History
GERM 10, Germany and the East, Yuliya Komska, Winter 2013
SART 30, SART 75, Photography II, III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2013
Writing Program 5.01, Experience and Education: Students, Teachers, Institutions, and the Power of Learning, Francine A'Ness, Winter 2023
Writing 5.01, Experience and Education: Students, Teachers, Institutions and the Power of Learning, Francine A'Ness, Fall 2023
Writing 5.01 - Experience and Education: Students, Teachers, Institutions, and the Power of Learning, Francine A'Ness, Winter 2024
Exhibition History
America's Great Depression; Through the Eyes of Three Women Photographers, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May-August 2010.
School Photos and their Afterlives, Northeast Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 8-April 12, 2020.
Provenance
Lee Gallery, Winchester, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2008.
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