Helen Levitt
(Brooklyn, New York, 1913 - 2009)
New York
1939 (printed 2000)
Gelatin silver print
43 x 29 in. (109.2 x 73.7 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of Laurence Miller Gallery in memory of Helen Levitt
2009.16
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Writer James Agee (1909-1955), a close friend of Levitt, wrote that “all over the city, on streets and walks and walls the children, and the other true primitives of the race have established ancient, essential and ephemeral forms of art, have set forth in chalk and crayon the names and images of their pride, love, preying, scorn, desire . . . . all spangling the walks and walls, which each strong shower effaces.”
Keywords
Children's playUnited States
Black and White
New York