Aatis Lillstrom
Photograph
Aatis Lillstrom
1965
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 7/8 × 8 in. (25.1 × 20.3 cm)
Mount: 20 × 14 15/16 in. (50.8 × 37.9 cm)
Matted: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Purchase with funds from the Charina Foundation, 2018
Inscriptions Signed and dated in ink on mount verso, TC: Keith A Smith \ Sep 65
Inscribed in ink on mount verso, TR: this was done souley [sic] upon your request. \ Do you care for it? I think this \ image of you gives a satisfactory psychological \ effect with the cracks in the palms of the \ hand. this differentiates it from the \ "repressed" mood of my [underlined] face in my hand. \ that [aarow pointing upward] is good for my portrait - and this \ on the other side describes one aspect \ of you. In this - I like this \ portrait - and hop you do also \ ALSO.
Inscribed in pencil on applied label on mount verso, TL: #17 \ Sep 65 \ Keith A Smith \ 1532 West 19th Street \ Chicago 8 J6[?]
Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, BC: ksm-00218-SP
[gallery label applied to mat verso]
Inscribed in ink on mount verso, TR: this was done souley [sic] upon your request. \ Do you care for it? I think this \ image of you gives a satisfactory psychological \ effect with the cracks in the palms of the \ hand. this differentiates it from the \ "repressed" mood of my [underlined] face in my hand. \ that [aarow pointing upward] is good for my portrait - and this \ on the other side describes one aspect \ of you. In this - I like this \ portrait - and hop you do also \ ALSO.
Inscribed in pencil on applied label on mount verso, TL: #17 \ Sep 65 \ Keith A Smith \ 1532 West 19th Street \ Chicago 8 J6[?]
Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, BC: ksm-00218-SP
[gallery label applied to mat verso]
