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Dmitri Kessel


Plates contributed

The 5 plates attributed to Dmitri Kessel in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).

ID Country Section Year View
photo-0009 China Lovers Clervaux
photo-0121 Italy Work Clervaux
photo-0126 China Work Clervaux
photo-0143 Belgian Congo Work Clervaux
photo-0156 China Work Clervaux

Notes

Plate #12 (Lovers, China). LIFE magazine. Checklist nationality ‘American’. Born near Kyiv in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine); emigrated to the US in 1923 and naturalized. Scholarly sources variously describe him as ‘Ukrainian-American’ or ‘American, born Ukraine’; checklist form preserved.

Sources
  • src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist
  • src-nyt-1995-kessel-obit
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