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Dark Water by Roy DeCarava — VisualArtsDB

Dark Water

Dark Water

1985

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 22.4 × 33.2 cm (8 7/8 × 13 1/8 in.); Paper: 25.8 × 35.4 cm (10 3/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Genre: Gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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