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Portrait of a Shade

1953

Ilse Bing

(American, 1899–1998)
Culture
America
Medium
vintage gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 50.4 x 40.5 cm (19 13/16 x 15 15/16 in.); Paper: 50.4 x 40.5 cm (19 13/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2016.458
Copyright
© Estate of Ilse Bing
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

While a striking study of light and shadow, this work also has an emotional component. Bing’s sense of isolation and alienation in New York can be intuited from this view of a window that reveals nothing of the outside world.

Portrait of a Shade

1953

Ilse Bing

(American, 1899–1998)
America

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