Minor White and Light Gallery
Nude Foot, San Francisco
1947, printed 1974-1975
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Physical Qualities
Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 273 x 347 mm. (10 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.)
Image: 213 x 270 mm. (8 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the "Jupiter Portfolio"
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.629.2
White’s work is best known for abstract and contemplative imagery of the natural world. During the 1940s, however, he took many figural photographs—portraits and other compositions featuring the male nude figure. The models were primarily White’s friends and students, identified by names on the reverse of the photographs now housed
in the Minor White Archive at the Princeton University Art Museum. The model in this photograph is Johnny Brechieux.
Light Gallery, New York, May, 1980.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Black, White & Abstract: Callahan, Siskind, White," May 17 - October 1, 2017.
Inscribed: FACE: LR below image (graphite) 'Minor White'; MOUNT FACE: LL 'Nude Foot-San Francisco-1947'; MOUNT VERSO: C (stamped in black ink) 'c THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY/ALL RIGHTS RESERVED/1980'; LR (stamped in black ink) 'P'.
