Tito (Blake Avenue, East New York)

Frank Espada, Tito (Blake Avenue, East New York), 1963, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center, 2015.22.6, © 1963, Frank Espada Photography
Frank Espada, Tito (Blake Avenue, East New York), 1963, gelatin silver print, sheet and image: 5 1⁄4 × 8 in. (13.3 × 20.5 cm) mount: 13 7⁄8 × 11 in. (35.2 × 27.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center, 2015.22.6, © 1963, Frank Espada Photography

Artwork Details

Title
Tito (Blake Avenue, East New York)
Artist
Date
1963
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet and image: 5 1⁄4 × 8 in. (13.3 × 20.5 cm) mount: 13 7⁄8 × 11 in. (35.2 × 27.9 cm)
Copyright
© 1963, Frank Espada Photography
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
Mediums Description
gelatin silver print
Classifications
Subjects
  • Cityscape — New York — New York
  • Cityscape — street
  • Portrait male — unidentified — child
Object Number
2015.22.6
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2015.22.6

Works by this artist (4 items)

Mary Frank, Leaping Boy with Fragments, 1980, color monotype on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Michael J. Ettner, 2021.88.72
Leaping Boy with Fragments
Artist
Date1980
color monotype on paper
Not on view
Mary Frank, Horse in Water, from the portfolio The New Provincetown Print Project, 1990, 1990, monoprint with collagraph and chine colle on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Burton and Brunetta Wolfman through the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, 1992.102.2, © 1990, Mary Frank
Horse in Water, from the portfolio The New Provincetown…
Artist
Date1990
monoprint with collagraph and chine colle on paper
Not on view
Mary Frank, Woman Figure, ca. 1960-1965, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arnold Elser, 1981.154.25
Woman Figure
Artist
Dateca. 1960-1965
lithograph on paper
Not on view
Mary Frank, Hand, 1963, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arnold Elser, 1981.154.26
Hand
Artist
Date1963
lithograph on paper
Not on view

Exhibitions

Photograph of children playing in the water from a fire hydrant by Hiram Maristany
Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography
May 11, 2017–August 5, 2017
Smithsonian American Art Museum
America’s urban streets have long inspired documentary photographers. After World War II, populations shifted from the city to the suburbs and newly built highways cut through thriving neighborhoods, leaving isolated pockets within major urban centers.

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