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Weegee

Weegee

Artist

WA-00003396

Photography

Representation

None documented

0

Institutional Exhibitions

11

Works in Collection

56

Assets Indexed

8

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ445857

Field Verification (7 fields)

0 cross-verified · 7 single-source

LocationGallery Generic + Gallery· 72%
Birth yearGallery· 60%
Death yearGallery· 60%
NationalityGallery· 60%
Primary mediumGallery· 60%
BiographyGallery· 60%
Profile imageGallery· 60%

Source Registry (4)

Corbett-Dempseyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/weegee
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/weegee
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/1842
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Anton-Kern
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred60%

About

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Photography

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Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art

Canonical record

Artworks (11)

Mr. K (photo distortion of Nikita Khrushchev)

1955 · gelatin silver print, ferrotyped

Image: 25.3 x 20.5 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 x 20.5 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Marilyn Monroe Distortion

1955 · gelatin silver print

Image: 28 x 26.4 cm (11 x 10 3/8 in.); Paper: 35.3 x 27.7 cm (13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Coney Island Sunbathers

1940 · Gelatin silver print

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subway Accident, New York City

1940 · Vintage gelatin silver print

Image: 26.5 x 33.7 cm (10 7/16 x 13 1/4 in.); Paper: 28.4 x 35.5 cm (11 3/16 x 14 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Mending, Coney Island

1940 · Gelatin silver print

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Soldier's Farewell

1940 · Gelatin silver print

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

'The Children Are Still in the Burning House'

'The Children Are Still in the Burning House'

1939 · gelatin silver print on photographic support, hardboard

width: 645 cm, height: 532 cm

Scrub Woman in 60 Wall Tower

1935 · gelatin silver print

Image: 34 x 19.1 cm (13 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Tramp on Lower East Side Receiving the Last Rites

1930 · Gelatin silver print

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tramp on Lower East Side Hit by a Taxi

1930 · Gelatin silver print

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tramp on Lower East Side

1930 · Gelatin silver print

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Artwork sources (4)

11 published of 36 catalogued · 19 with image

The Met
6 published
Cleveland Museum of Art
4 published
Rijksmuseum
1 published1 img
+ 1 more source · 25 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 5)

5 entries · 1 sources

'The Children Are Still in the Burning House'
1939 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Subway Accident, New York City
1940 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Mr. K (photo distortion of Nikita Khrushchev)
1955 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Marilyn Monroe Distortion
1955 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Scrub Woman in 60 Wall Tower
1935 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

20 assets

'The Children Are Still in the Burning House' (1939-12-15)

Rijksmuseum

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Weegee (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

"I cried when I took this picture" by Weegee

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Weegee Arthur Fellig 1945

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Weegee ca 1945

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Musée Maillol Expo Weegee panoramio

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Weegee's Story

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

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Relationships

5

Movements1

Collections4

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Christie's

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Rijksmuseum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

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