Young Girl in Black Catholic Church, Long View (from the August Wilson Series)

Ming Smith

1992

  • Titles Young Girl in Black Catholic Church, Long View (from the August Wilson Series) (Proper)
  • Artist Ming Smith, American, born 1947
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm) frame: 24 3/4 × 19 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (62.9 × 48.9 × 3.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Jack and Rebecca Drake Collection, AFI.35.2021
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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