Light Pole and Grain Elevator

Wright Morris, American, 1910 - 1998

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1947

Gelatin silver print

Sheet: 8 15/16 × 7 3/4 in. (22.7 × 19.7 cm)

Mount: 12 1/16 × 10 in. (30.6 × 25.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund, the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund, and gifts from William Olden and Carola B. and H. G. Terwilliger, by exchange

2017.48.3

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, on mount, lower right, in graphite: Wright Morris 1947

Course History

Anthropology 73.01, Main Currents in Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Spring 2024

Provenance

Small auction house; sold to private dealer, California; sold to Charles Isaacs Photography, Inc, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2017.

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