Woman and Baby, Hidalgo
1933, printed 1940
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 12.5 × 16.1 cm (4 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 40.4 × 31.7 cm (15 7/8 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund
Accession Number
2023.34.2.15
About the Artist
Paul Strand
Paul Strand (1890–1976), born Nathaniel Paul Stransky in Brooklyn, New York, to Bohemian immigrant parents Jacob and Matilda Stransky, discovered photography at age twelve with a camera gifted by his father. Enrolled at the progressive Ethical Culture Fieldston School, he studied under documentary photographer Lewis W. Hine and critic Charles Caffin from 1904 to 1909, where Hine instilled a commit...