Tina Modotti

Telephone Wires, Mexico

1924

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Tina Modotti

Telephone Wires, Mexico

Tina Modotti

Telephone Wires, Mexico

1924

Physical Qualities Platinum print, Mount: 454 x 337 mm. (17 7/8 x 13 1/4 in.) Image/Sheet: 230 x 162 mm. (9 1/16 x 6 3/8 in.)

Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore

Object Number 1988.474

Prakapas Gallery, New York, May, 1984

Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Colelction," 17 September - 19 November, 1989.

Jan Howard, BMA, "Abstract Photographs," 22 March - 25 June 1995.

Sarah M. Lowe, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, September 16 - November 26, 1995 and the Museum Fine Arts, Houston, December 17, 1995- February 25, 1996, "Tina Modotti, Photographs." (two venues only)

Darsie Alexander, BMA, 'Mechanical Form/Mechanical Vision,' December 12, 2001-April 7, 2002.

Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.

Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints," November 19, 2017 - March 11, 2017.

Walsh, George, Colin Naylor, and Michael Held, eds., Contemporary Photographers. New York: St. Martin's Press, in copy with MacMillan Press, Ltd., 1982, ill. p. 524.

Beals, Carlton, 'Tina Modotti,' Creative Art, Vol. IV, #2. Feb. 1929, p. XLV reproduces 'Telephone Wires.'

Lowe, Sarah M. Tina Modotti Photographs. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995, ill. pl. 28, p. 26-27.

"The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum," The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, p. 231.

Inscribed: Recto: on mount, at lower right, in graphite:"Tina Modotti - 1925; Verso: none

Markings: None