Calling for Help, Okinawa
1945
W. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith (American, 1918–1978)
Photography
Calling for Help, Okinawa, 1945. W. Eugene Smith (American, 1918–1978). Gelatin silver print; image: 24 x 34 cm (9 7/16 x 13 3/8 in.); matted: 55.9 x 55.9 cm (22 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund 1990.89
- Maker/Artist
- Smith, W. Eugene
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 24 x 34 cm (9 7/16 x 13 3/8 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 55.9 cm (22 x 22 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Written in brown ink on recto of mount: "Calling [g in blue ink] for Help. Okinawa 4/19-45"; "W. Eugene Smith [signed] / for LIFE [in blue ink]"; in blue ink on verso: "NM33"; in pencil on verso: "P-57"
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 1990.89
- Credit Line
- Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
- Exhibitions
- Notable Acquisitions, Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art, CMA, June 7 - September 15, 1991: "Notable Acquisitions," CMA Bulletin, 78 (June 1991), p. 103, repr.<br>CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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