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New York City (Spider Girl)

Artist Helen Levitt American, 1913-2009
Date1980
Dimensions12 1/4 × 18 in. (31.1 × 45.7 cm)
MediumChromogenic color print
ClassificationPhotographs
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Frederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund, the Carl B. Spitzer Fund, and the Louise and Stanley Levison Fund
Object number
2018.31
Not on View
Published ReferencesSzarkowski, John, Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt, New York, PowerHouse Books, 2005, pp. 87.

Boom, Mattie, and Hans Rooseboom, Modern Times: Photography in the 20th Century, Amsterdam, Nai010 Publishers, 2014, afb. 100.

Rooseboom, Hans, “Kleine geschiedenis van de kleurenfotografie,” Kunstschrift, 2014, no. 5, pp. 21, afb. 23.

Exhibition HistorySan Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago; Seattle, Seattle Art Museum; Salt Lake City, Utah Museum of Fine Arts; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Helen Levitt, 1991 - 1994.

New York, Laurence Miller Gallery, Helen Levitt, Slide Show: Color Photographs 1959-1984, November 3 – December 23, 2005.

Munich, Galerie f.5.6, Helen Levitt, December 1, 2006 – January 27, 2007.

Paris, Foundation Cartier-Bresson, Helen Levitt: Un Art de l'accident poetique, September 12 – 23, 2007.

New York, Laurence Miller Gallery, Helen Levitt, Pairs and Apples, June 14 – August 3, 2017.

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