Roy Pinney

flush-mounted, the photographer's 'Towers Hotel, Main 4-2000, Brooklyn, N. Y.' studio and reproduction rights stamp on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, circa 1936

Keith De Lellis Gallery, New York, 2001

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Buhl Collection, January - March 2008

Seoul, South Korea, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Asian tour), March - May 2009, and 2 other Asian venues through 2011 (see Appendix 1)

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 75 and 239 (this print)

This somewhat warm-toned print, on lightly-textured matte-surface paper, is in generally excellent condition. Silvering is visible, primarily in the dark areas, when the photograph is examined in raking light. The print is trimmed to the image and there is minor wear and chipping along the edges. The corners are bumped. The reverse of the mount is lightly soiled from handling.
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