Female Nude

George Platt Lynes, American, 1907 - 1956

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about 1939

Gelatin silver print

Overall: 9 3/16 × 7 7/16 in. (23.4 × 18.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Parnassus Foundation

2010.80.33

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Stamped, on reverse: George Platt Lynes VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH, Collection Bernard Perlin.

Course History

WGST 18, Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies, Eng-Beng Lim, Winter 2015

SART 76, Senior Seminar, Enrico Riley, Winter 2022

Exhibition History

Sex, Gender, and Society: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19-October 18, 1992.

Shadows and Hallucinations: Surrealist Art from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, MALS308, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 24-September 5, 1999.

Signs of Modern Life: Photographs from the Collections of Jane and Raphael Bernstein and Dartmouth College, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 13-October 25, 1998.

Provenance

Collection of Bernard Perlin (1918-2014); Christies East, Sale 5665, lot 239, New York, New York; sold to the Parnassus Foundation (Jane and Raphael Bernstein), Ridgewood, New Jersey, November 6, 1984.

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