Hopscotch

Perla de Leon, Hopscotch, 1980, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center, 2016.16.4, © 1980, Perla de Leon
Perla de Leon, Hopscotch, 1980, gelatin silver print, image: 6 × 9 18 in. (15.2 × 23.2 cm) sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center, 2016.16.4, © 1980, Perla de Leon

Artwork Details

Title
Hopscotch
Date
1980
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 6 × 9 18 in. (15.2 × 23.2 cm) sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Copyright
© 1980, Perla de Leon
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
Mediums Description
gelatin silver print
Classifications
Subjects
  • Recreation — sport and play — hopscotch
  • Architecture Exterior — domestic — house
  • Figure female — child
  • Cityscape — street
  • Cityscape — New York — New York
Object Number
2016.16.4

Works by this artist (3 items)

Christine McHorse, Wolves Courting at Full Moon, 1988, fired micaceous clay with piñon pitch, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson, 1997.124.161
Wolves Courting at Full Moon
Date1988
fired micaceous clay with piñon pitch
On view
Christine McHorse, Crow Pot, 1991, kiln-fired and pit-fired micaceous clay with pinon pitch, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase made possible by Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, 1997.124.159
Crow Pot
Date1991
kiln-fired and pit-fired micaceous clay with pinon pitch
On view
Christine McHorse, Lizard Pot, ca. 1990, pit-fired micaceous clay with piñon pitch, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson, 1997.124.160
Lizard Pot
Dateca. 1990
pit-fired micaceous clay with piñon pitch
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, 2017August 5, 2017
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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