Toy Display (Circus)
c. 1924
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View on museum website →Medium
platinum print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 15.9 × 15.24 cm (6 1/4 × 6 in.) mount: 35.56 × 27.94 cm (14 × 11 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with the aid of funds from the Polaroid Corporation)
Accession Number
2015.19.4169
Art Historical Context
**Toy Display (Circus)**, a captivating platinum print by Paul Outerbridge from around 1924, invites visitors into the playful yet precise world of early modernist photography. Outerbridge, an American innovator who bridged commercial and fine art realms, captured this intimate still life of circus-themed toys arranged in a window display. Measuring just 15.9 × 15.24 cm on a larger 35.56 × 27.94 cm mount, its small scale draws the eye to meticulous details, evoking the era's fascination with everyday objects transformed into art. The platinum print medium, prized in the 1920s for its expansiv...