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Valerie Bettis-Desperate Heart by Barbara Morgan — VisualArtsDB

Valerie Bettis-Desperate Heart

Valerie Bettis-Desperate Heart

1944

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 43.2 × 35.2 cm (17 1/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Paper: 50.7 × 40.5 cm (20 × 16 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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