George Platt Lynes

Untitled (Maria Tallchief, The Four Temperments)

c. 1946

Ballet dancer in mid-air split leap wearing a patterned leotard and layered tutu.
Ballet dancer in mid-air split leap wearing a patterned leotard and layered tutu.

George Platt Lynes, Untitled (Maria Tallchief, The Four Temperments), c. 1946. Gelatin silver prints, drymounted back-to-back and airbrushed with matte pigment, sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (33.7 × 26.7 cm) Mount: 13 1/4 × 10 1/2 × 1/16 in. (33.7 × 26.7 × 0.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Marcia L. Due and Jerry L. Thompson in memory of Lincoln Kirstein 2020.163a-b

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Date
c. 1946

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver prints, drymounted back-to-back and airbrushed with matte pigment

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (33.7 × 26.7 cm) Mount: 13 1/4 × 10 1/2 × 1/16 in. (33.7 × 26.7 × 0.2 cm)

Accession number
2020.163a-b

Credit line
Gift of Marcia L. Due and Jerry L. Thompson in memory of Lincoln Kirstein

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

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