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An abstract black-and-white photograph of stark white lines making a crisscross pattern that mimics a bird's face on a black background.
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Light Creates Bird Symbols

Carlotta Corpron (1901-1988)

Object Details

  • Date

    1946 or 1948

  • Object Type

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Gelatin silver print

  • Dimensions

    Image: 13 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.
    Mount: 20 1/16 x 16 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Overmat:

    l.l. in graphite:Light creates bird symbols

    l.r. signed in graphite: Carlotta M. Corpron

    Mount Verso:

    u.l. in graphite: Fluid Light Series \ LIGHT CREATES BIRD SYMBOLS (2 negatives

    u.c. in graphite: 1946 or 1948

    u.r. in graphite: vintage $1500

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of the Dorothea Leonhardt Fund of the Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc.

  • Accession Number

    P1985.2.9

  • Copyright

    © 1988 Amon Carter Museum of American Art

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