Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln

Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln

Photograph

Edward Steichen

Maker
American, b. Luxembourg, 1879–1973

Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln

[by Leonard W. Volk, Chicago, March, 1860]


1936
Gelatin silver print
120.7 x 96.5 cm.
Gift of Mrs. Gerald Dickler
1989.1474.0001
Inscriptions recto-(in image, upper left) (signed) "Steichen 1936"
verso-(in pencil) "20" "19" (in red pencil) "185 (circled)"
(printed label with typescript) "185" "Museum of Modern Art 11 West
53rd Street, New York 19, N.Y. Artist: Edward Steichen Title: Life
Mask of Abraham Lincoln by Volk, 1860; photographed in 1936 Medium:
Enlargement MoMA Museum No.: Storage Space: Collection of
Photographs"
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