Under the Arches, Tunis
Alice Burr, American, 1883 - 1968
about 1910-1919
Platinum print
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 5 5/8 in. (20 × 14.3 cm)
Mount: 11 3/8 × 10 1/8 in. (28.9 × 25.7 cm)
Mount: 17 13/16 × 13 1/8 in. (45.2 × 33.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund, the Claire and Richard P. Morse 1953 Fund, and the Olivia H. Parker and John O. Parker '58 Acquisition Fund
PH.2000.37.2
Geography
Place Imaged: Tunis, Tunisia, Northern Africa, Africa
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right: Alice Burr; signed, in graphite, on mount, beneath image, lower right: Alice Burr; inscribed, in ink, on reverse of original mount: Alice Burr / 1661 Green St. / San Francisco. / Title - Under the Arches - Tunis. / Return by Parcels [sic] Post / to / Alice Burr / 1722 Vallejo St. / San Francisco, Cal.; stamped, in ink, on reverse of oringial mount, in oval with scalloped border: PITTSBURGH SALON / MARCH 1919 / No...[in ink, by hand, on dotted line] 37
Exhibition History
Alice Burr, Photographer: A California Pictorialist Rediscovered, The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, University of Maryland/Baltimore County, Baltimore. Maryland, January 29-March 14, 2001.
Alice Burr, Photographer: A California Pictorialist Rediscovered, The California Historical Society, San Francisco, California, May 17-October 8, 2005.
Pittsburgh Salon, March 1919, Catalogue No. 37.
Provenance
Collection of the artist's nephew, Alan Burr Overstreet (1915-1975); to his wife, Jeanne Slate Overstreet (1918-2005), Bennington, Vermont; sold to present collection, 2000.
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