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Penlight Drawing by Nathan Lerner — VisualArtsDB

Penlight Drawing

Penlight Drawing

1939

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 8 × 11.8 cm (3 3/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
Genre: photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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photographic techniquesphotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographyphotographphotographic paper

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