The Language of Light

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Object Details
Artist/Maker
Clarence John Laughlin, American, 1905–1985
Date
1952, printed 1981
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 15 9/16 × 19 9/16 inches
Mounted: 20 × 28 inches
Credit
Gift of Joshua Mann Pailet in honor of his mother, Charlotte Mann Pailet; her family members Josef, Jiri and Alma Beran Mann, all of whom perished in the Holocaust; and Sir Nicholas Winton, the British hero who orchestrated Charlotte’s escape with 669 Czechoslovakian children in 1939
Abbreviated version: Gift of Joshua Mann Pailet in honor of his mother, Charlotte Mann Pailet, her family, and Sir Nicholas Winton
Accession #
2016.588