Martha Graham, American Document ("Puritan Love Duet" with Eric Hawkins)

Barbara Morgan · 1938

Here we have Martha Graham, American Document ("Puritan Love Duet" with Eric Hawkins) — a photograph by the American artist Barbara Morgan, nineteen thirty-eight. Gelatin silver print, printed nineteen seventy-one — about 46 by 38 centimeters. It is among the darkest surfaces here: measured across the whole picture it gives back very little light. You can pick out the dancing.

Medium Gelatin silver print, printed 1971 · Dimensions 18 × 15" (45.7 × 38.0 cm) · Credit Gift of the artist

Hanging beside it in Gallery 409: Paul Cadmus, Untitled from the series Brooklyn Gang

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled, Untitled, Tongues (Holy Rollers), Moulin Rouge, Trio A, 14 Juillet (Bastille Day) Paris, Ile Saint-Louis

More by Barbara Morgan here: Martha Graham, El Penitente (Erick Hawkins Solo, "El Flagellante"), Willard's Foot, Corn Leaf Rhythm