About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0093
  • TitleModern art
  • SummaryTwo girls with smocks painting at easels, probably in nursery school at housing project (Glenwood Houses) at or near 1660 Ralph Avenue. Caption on verso: "Modern Art: Paula Sackowitz, 3, works at a non-objective painting while Lynn Savad, also 3, looks on and, like the average citizen, wonders what the artist's abstraction is supposed to represent."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 20, 1952; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectGirls -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nursery schools -- New York (State) -- New York ; Painting -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Housing: Glenwood Houses