Two Danny Lyon 1967 and 1970 Prints at GET

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1967 to 1970
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<div class="clearfix">&nbsp; <div class="medium-9 large-9 columns"> <p>Gallup, New Mexico, 11:37 AM (for Lewis Hine)</p> </div> </div> <div class="clearfix">Gallup, New Mexico, United States (Place depicted)</div> <div class="clearfix">1970</div> <div class="clearfix">Gelatin silver print with ink</div> <div class="clearfix">&nbsp; <div class="medium-9 large-9 columns"> <p>21.6 x 31.1 cm (8 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.)&nbsp;© Danny Lyon</p> </div> </div> <div class="clearfix">Recto print, signed in ink by the artist</div> <div class="clearfix">Markings: Verso print, marked with the artist's studio wet stamp, "Bleak Beauty," with "Picture Date and Print Date."</div> <div class="clearfix">Inscription: Recto print, titled in ink by the artist. Verso print, inscribed in pencil "1970" (with studio wet stamps "Picture Date and Print Date").</div> <div class="clearfix">Print &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;94.XM.24</div> <div class="clearfix">&nbsp;</div> <div class="clearfix">&nbsp;</div> <div class="clearfix">&nbsp;</div> <div class="clearfix">&nbsp;</div> <div class="clearfix">For Walker Evans and James Agee, Knoxville, Tennessee</div> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;">&nbsp;</div> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;">Knoxville, Tennessee, United States (Place depicted)</div> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;">negative 1967; print 1989</div> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;">Gelatin silver print</div> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;">27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)</div> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;">© Danny Lyon</div> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;">(Verso) Signed, titled and dated in pencil by photographer.</div> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;">&nbsp;</div> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;">Inscription: Decorated border, inscribed in marker by photographer. On the top margin, inscribed in marker by Lyon, "For Walker Evans and James Agee, Two gallant men, together in life, now united immortal in death." On the left margin, inscribed in marker by Lyon, "KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, 1967, I WENT TO THE BOYHOOD HOME OF JAMES AGEE." On the right margin, insribed in marker by Lyon, "Then seven years later in Chicago the news arrived of Walker Evans Death." On the bottom margin, inscribed in marker by Lyon, "Now they are both gone and we are left thoroughly alone. One would have thought that the world itself would end with this single man's death, so great was his vision, so powerful his art. We will be forever remembered and honored by his work. Like Plato, he seems to have found reality itself. Danny Lyon."</div> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;">Print &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;97.XM.28</div> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;">&nbsp;</div>
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