Nationality
American
Artist Dates
1926-2007
Title of Work
Electric Chair, Greenhaven Correctional (Set of 82)
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Date of Work
1978
Medium
Postcard
Height
4"
Width
6"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection.
Status
Stored: FF_012_D
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Fred W. McDarrah was born in 1926 in Brooklyn, NY. He is best known for being the first staff photographer at The Village Voice, an alternative weekly paper founded in 1955 during the Beat Generation. He has photographed numerous important events and people in history during his career including Stonewall Inn riots, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan and many others. Fred W. McDarrah has work in the permanent collections of the Parrish Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the City of New York and many others.
Additional Information
Artists' Postcard Series II
A black and white photograph of an electric chair and observational pews.
UND Art Collections owns 82 copies of this postcard.
Postcard Reverse
Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:
Fred W. McDarrah
Electric Chair, Greenhaven Correctional Facility,
N.Y., May 19, 1978
Photograph
© Artists' Postcards 1978, N.Y.C.
Text in top center of postcard:
Artists' Postcards Logo
Text in bottom left of postcard:
Exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, Fall 1978
Four address lines are located on the bottom right side of the postcard.
Condition
Very good