August 10, 1955, 1996

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 20.2 × 25 cm (7 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

sheet: 25.2 × 30 cm (9 15/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

Accession Number

2013.82.3

Artists / Makers

Linda Connor (artist) American, born 1944

Image Use

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Copyright

Courtesy of the University of California Observatories. This image is from the Lick Observatory's Mount Hamilton Plate Archives. Copyright held by the Regents of the University of California.

Inscription

on verso, signed by artist lower right in graphite: Linda S. Connor; lower left: Contact print from the / original negative. Lick Observatory Archive, / University of California.; center inverted: King Polar Axis / Aug 10 1955 / Upper; bottom center: August 10, 1955; by unknown hand, top left in graphite: HG 3460

Provenance

Linda Connor; NGA purchase (through Haines Gallery, San Francisco), 2013.

Associated Names

Haines Gallery

Exhibition History

2015: The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2015, no. 28.