John Gutmann

ferrotyped, signed, initialed, dated, and numbered in pencil on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1939

Lumina Gallery, New York, 1994

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. 120 and 222 (this print)

Sandra S. Phillips, The Photographs of John Gutmann: Culture Shock (London, 2000), pl. 97

This small, ferrotyped print is in generally excellent condition. In high raking light, a very small linear indentation and various insignificant surface scratches are visible. On the reverse of the print, '430,12' is written in pencil. When examined under ultraviolet light, this print does not appear to fluoresce.
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