Sommer, Frederick
American (b. Italy, 1905-1999)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Eight Young Roosters, 1938

1938
gelatin silver print
19.3 x 24.1 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 20810
71:0112:0002

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Hirsch, Robert. --Seizing the Light: A History of Photography.-- New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. p. 347.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 648.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Picture Puzzles", US, NY, New York, Museum of Modern Art - Steichen Galleries, August 12 - November 16, 1975.//
"Dada & Surrealism Reviewed", England, London, Arts Council of Great Britain, January 10 - March 10, 1978.//
"Acquisitions 1973-1980", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, June 12 - September 20, 1981.//

INSCRIPTION: mount verso-(in pencil) "Eight Young Roosters 1938" "75-684 (MOMA loan number) (signed) "Frederick Sommer 1938"

copyright, Frederick Sommer

NOTES: Catalogued 5/88, DZ.

SUBJECT: study, animal parts