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We Were Here, Closing Day at the Fair (Primary Title)

John Albok, American, born Hungary, 1894–1983 (Artist)

1940
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver print
Photography
Mount: 19 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (50.48 × 40.32 cm)
Image: 10 5/8 × 13 9/16 in. (26.99 × 34.45 cm)
2017.394
Not on view
Signed and dated in graphite on mount recto, below lower left corner of print: “c/o 1989 John Albok”.
Artist stamp in black ink on mount verso: “John Albock/ 1392 Madison Ave., N.Y./TEL. ATwater 9-4498”
Inscribed in graphite in upper left corner mount recto: “3” Inscribed in graphite on mount recto, below lower left corner of print: “Closing Day of the Fair” Inscribed in graphite in upper left corner on mount verso: “World’s Fair 1940” and “JoA 008” Inscribed in blue ink in lower left corner on mount recto : “ “We Were Here”/ Graffiti at the World’s Fair / Closing Day” Inscribed in graphite, lower left corner mount recto: “13[encircled]”
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment
©artist or artist’s estate

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