Untitled

Front / Recto

• Title Untitled
• Negative Date c. 1924
• Print Date 1924–40
• Medium Gelatin silver print
• Dimensions Image 5 7/8 × 8 7/16" (15 × 21.5 cm)
  Mount 6 1/16 × 8 11/16" (15.4 × 22 cm)
  
• Place Taken San Francisco
• Credit Line Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Thomas Walther
• MoMA Accession Number 1684.2001

Back / Verso

• Mount Type Mount (original)
• Marks and Inscriptions Signed in pencil on large mount recto, bottom right: Johan Hagemeyer [underlined]. Signed in pencil on large mount verso, center: Johan Hagemeyer [underlined]. Inscribed in pencil on large mount verso, bottom right: TW 881005.
• Provenance The artist, Berkeley; by inheritance to the artist's descendants, 1962 [1]; to Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, early 1980s [2]; purchased by Thomas Walther, 1988 [3]; given to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
  [1] Edwynn Houk, conversation with Simon Bieling, New York, March 2005.
  [2] Ibid.; and MacGill/Walther 2000, p. 12.
  [3] Thomas Walther archival no. TW 881005 on mount verso.

Surface

• Surface Sheen Matte
• Techniques Mount
  
• PTM
  

  View of the recto of the artwork made using reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) software, which exaggerates subtle surface details and renders the features of the artwork plainly visible. Department of Conservation, MoMA
• Micro-raking
  

  Raking-light close-up image, as shot. Area of detail is 6.7 x 6.7 mm. Department of Conservation, MoMA

  

  Raking-light close-up image, processed. Processing included removal of color, equalization of the histogram, and sharpening, all designed to enhance visual comparison. Department of Conservation, MoMA

Paper Material

• Format Imperial
• UV Fluorescence Recto negative
  Verso no data
• Fiber Analysis No fiber data available
• Material Techniques Developing-out paper
  
• XRF

  This work was determined to be a gelatin silver print via X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry.

  The following elements have been positively identified in the work, through XRF readings taken from its recto and verso (or from the mount, where the verso was not accessible):

  • Recto: Al, P, S, Cl, Ca, Fe, Zn, Sr, Ag, Ba, Pb
  • Mount: Al, Si, S, Ca, Fe, Zn

  The graphs below show XRF spectra for three areas on the print: two of the recto—from areas of maximum and minimum image density (Dmax and Dmin)—and one of the verso or mount. The background spectrum represents the contribution of the XRF instrument itself. The first graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the lower energy range (0 to 8 keV). The second graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the higher energy range (8 to 40 keV).

  

  Areas examined: Recto (Dmax: black; Dmin: green), Verso or Mount (blue), Background (red)
  Elements identified: Al, Si, P, S, Cl, Ca, Ag, Ba

  

  Areas examined: Recto (Dmax: black; Dmin: green), Verso or Mount (blue), Background (red)
  Elements identified: Fe, Zn, Sr, Ag, Pb

In Context

Related People

• Artist

  • Johan Hagemeyer