Details
Creator Fetters, H.
Title Art exhibit at Rittenhouse Square - 1937 [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1937
Date [1937]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; 4 x 12 cm. (10 x 4.75 in.)
Description View showing a young African American man looking at a display of art works from the "Clothesline Show" in Rittenhouse Square. The man stands to the right of the display composed of two, parallel rows of art hung on clothes lines strung between two trees. A collection of painted canvases rest under the lines in the left. The man stands near the opening to a pathway. A bed of flowers near a lawn of grass is visible in the foreground. The "Clothesline Show," later the Rittenhouse Square Fine art show began in June 1932 with the exhibition of art works within the square by arts students in the Arts Student League. In the following years, professional artists began to display their work as well and in 1976 the show was renamed the Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Annual. In 2004 the show moved to the outside of the park. In 2005 it was renamed Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show.
Notes Date and title from manuscript note on recto.
Part of a number of views of the "Clothelines Show" [P.2017.88.76.5-11] taken by Fetters within a series of his work in the Swayne Collection [P.2017.88.76.1-52]. Most of the views include spectators and two views include the "Lion Crushing the Serpent" statue after the designs of Antoine-Louis Barye.
Description reviewed 2022.
Access points reviewed 2022.
Subject Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Art exhibitions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Rittenhouse Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Robert Swayne Collection [P.2017.88.76.9]
Accession number P.2017.88.76.9