El Paso, Texas ("She awaits the international street car at a corner in El Paso, Texas to return across the bridge to Mexico")
negative June 1938; print about 1940
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 19.1 × 19.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-738200
The subject is a street scene including an elderly woman wrapped in a long dress and shawl who sleeps sitting on the sidewalk and leaning against a storefront. Reflected in the store window above her head is activity on the street, pedestrian and car traffic, and signage posted on the opposite street corner.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- negative June 1938; print about 1940 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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