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Max Yavno
Watts1941

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Black and white photograph of a weathered white building exterior with hand-lettered warning signs about a shotgun and a painted rifle image, young bare tree at sidewalk's edge

Max Yavno, Watts, 1941, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Max Yavno
Title
Watts
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1941
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 9 3/16 × 13 3/8 in. (23.34 × 33.97 cm) Primary support: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. (27.62 × 35.24 cm) Mat: 15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (40.32 × 50.48 cm)
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.2665
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Road Trip: Photography of the American West: Photographies XIXe-XXIe Siècles du Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bordeaux: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, 2014.

Copyright
© Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation

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