Untitled (Light Box Study with Wires, Screen and String)
1930s
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 41.28 × 50.8 cm (16 1/4 × 20 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with funds from the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)
Accession Number
2015.19.5094
About the Artist
Nathan Lerner
Nathan Lerner (1913–1997), born in Chicago as the second of three sons to Ukrainian immigrants Louis and Ida Lerner, grew up in an artistic family—his older brother was a writer, his younger a flutist with the Pittsburgh Symphony, his mother later painted watercolors, and his father became a temple cantor. At age nine, he attended Saturday children's art classes at the Art Institute of Chicago und...