Samuel P. “Pee Wee” West
2002
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19.6 x 15.8 cm (7 11/16 x 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 25.2 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia A. Kennedy
Accession Number
2011.145.33
About the Artist
Milton Rogovin
Milton Rogovin (1909–2011), an American social documentary photographer, was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents amid the hardships of the Great Depression, which profoundly shaped his lifelong commitment to illuminating the dignity of working-class people. After attending Stuyvesant High School, he earned a B.S. in optometry from Columbia University in 1931 and late...