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Ralph B. Bonwit

La Siesta

1926

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Ralph B. Bonwit

La Siesta

1926

Physical Qualities Carbro print, Sheet: 203 × 253 mm. (8 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Elinor B. Cahn, Baltimore, in Memory of her Brother, Willard R. Bonwit
Object Number 1993.170
The artist to his daughter, Elinor B. Cahn
'The Toronto Salon 36th Annual Salon of Pictorial Photography,' The Toronto Camera Club affiliated with the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, The Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, 8/27-9/10/27; 'One Man Exhibition,' California Camera Club, 1927; '11th International Salon of Photography,' Camera Pictorialist of L.A., California, 1/3-1/31/28; '9th Annual Salon of Photography,' Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., 1/28; 'American Annual,' 1928; 'L.A. International Salon,' 1928; 'Baltimore Collects,' BMA, 3/10-5/3/81.

Inscribed: MOUNT VERSO: (purple stamp), C, 'RALPH B. BONWIT,/2304 EUTAW PLACE,/ BALTIMORE MD.'; (red pencil), LLC in circle, '112'--number is partially obscured by red show label; (blue pencil), ULC, '4'; and exhibition labels, One Man Exhibition, California Camera Club, 1927; The Toronto Salon 1927; Eleventh International Salon of Photography, Camera Pictorialist, Los Angeles, 1928; American Annual 1928; Los Angeles International Salon 1928; Buffalo Camera Club 1928.

Artist

Ralph B. Bonwit

1894–1934

American, 1895-1935
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