Title from caption on object: “But There Was a Day When One Woman Was Enough; Her Name Was Garbo. She Didn’t Have to Take Her Clothes Off.", 1931

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Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

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sheet: 25.3 × 20.4 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.291

Artists / Makers

Clarence Sinclair Bull (artist) American, 1896 - 1979

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Inscription

retouching across recto in grey paint; by unknown hand, lower right in negative: MC-19388; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite perpendicular: 20" / GARBO + ANGIE; upper left in blue pencil: Greta; upper right stamped in red ink perpendicular: R 19 1932; center right reproduction of image in black ink on applied newspaper; center right stamped in black ink on applied newspaper: SEP 14 1980 D; lower left printed in black ink on applied newspaper: reigns supreme. But there was a day when / one woman was enough; her name was Gar- / bo. [circled in purple ink] She didn't have to take her clothes off.; lower left stamped in red ink perpendicular: 19 1932; lower right stamped in red ink perpendicular: [1]932

Provenance

Ricardo Linares [?]; (sale, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary