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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (United States, 1912 - 2006) Pastor Ledbetter, from the …
Pastor Ledbetter, from the series Metropolitan Baptist Church
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (United States, 1912 - 2006) Pastor Ledbetter, from the …
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (United States, 1912 - 2006) Pastor Ledbetter, from the series Metropolitan Baptist Church, 1953, printed 2017 Gelatin silver print 15 1/4 x 21 in. (387.4 x 533.4 mm) Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.415. Copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation.

Pastor Ledbetter, from the series Metropolitan Baptist Church

Portfolio/SeriesMetropolitan Baptist Church, 1953 (unpublished LIFE Magazine essay)
Artist (United States, 1912 - 2006)
Date1953, printed 2017
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsIMAGE: 15 1/4 x 21 in. (387.4 x 533.4 mm)
SHEET: 20 x 24 in. (508 x 609.6 mm)
FRAME: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Object TypePhotographs
Credit LineKansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.415. Image courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Object number2017.415
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Baptism, 1953, printed 2017 Gelatin silver print IMAGE…
Baptism
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1953, printed 2017
2017.361
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks Untitled, 1953, printed 2017, gelatin silver print 18 …
Untitled
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1953, printed 2017
2017.375
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Black Militant Rally, New York, 1963, printed 2017 ch…
2017.401
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1963, printed 2017
2017.401
Object image courtesy of Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art; Gordon …
Title unknown (Pilgrim Baptist Church)
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1985
2017.476
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Mysticism that the hero finds in Harlem is represented b…
Mysticism that the hero finds in Harlem is represented by objects — both religious and superstitious — seen in a store window
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1952, printed 2017
2017.393
Laura Barr, French Garden Series, 1991, photomechanical reproduction, 4 x 5 13/16 in., Kansas S…
French Garden Series
Laura Barr
1991
CM13j.2023
Andrea Norris (director, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas), backyard, Kren home, Bertrand Sreet, Manhattan, Kansas, November 3, 1988
Andrea Norris (director, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas), backyard, Kren home, Bertrand Sreet, Manhattan, Kansas, November 3, 1988
George M. Kren
November 3, 1988, printed 2011
2016.102
Andrea Norris (director, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas), backyard, Kren home, Bertrand Sreet, Manhattan, Kansas, November 3, 1988
Andrea Norris (director, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas), backyard, Kren home, Bertrand Sreet, Manhattan, Kansas, November 3, 1988
George M. Kren
November 3, 1988, printed 2011
2017.165
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, In the shadowy slum into which she was born in Rio de Ja…
In the shadowy slum into which she was born in Rio de Janeiro, 3-year-old Isabel da Silva cries to herself after vainly seeking comfort from her exhausted father, José.
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
2017.400
No. 12 — The End (Tailpiece)
No. 12 — The End (Tailpiece)
E. Hubert Deines
1936
1969.64l1
Parrot Series #XIII
Parrot Series #XIII
Lowell Nesbitt
1973
2017.14
War Savings Bond Series E
War Savings Bond Series E
John Steuart Curry
1942
CM1.1999