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The Discerning Eye: Five Perspectives on the Addison Collection

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Artist(s): Roy DeCarava (New York, NY, Dec 9, 1919 - Oct 27, 2009, New York, NY)
Title: Coltrane and Elvin, New York
Date: neg. 1960, print 1981
Dimensions: 10 in. x 13 in. (25.4 cm x 33.02 cm)
Medium: gelatin silver print
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, 1985.86

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Racial Realities: a photographic questioning of equality in America,1940-1983, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/13/1984 - 3/7/1985
Do You See What I See?  Representing the Black Subject, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/4/2007 - 12/30/2007
The Discerning Eye: Five Perspectives on the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/4/2007 - 12/30/2007
sad poems. [Phillips Academy Art 400], Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/15/2017 - 3/4/2018
Harlem: In Situ, Addison Gallery of American Art, 3/29/2019 - 7/31/2019
Roy DeCarava, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2020 - 4/11/2021

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