Post Office, Sprott, Alabama, 1971
William Christenberry, American, 1936 - 2016
1971, print 1988
Polaroid
Image: 3 1/8 × 4 7/8 in. (8 × 12.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Marc F. Efron, Class of 1965 and Barbara Bares
© William Christenberry
PH.2001.44.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on reverse, in black ink, lower right: C[illeg.]t[illeg.]; inscribed, on reverse, in black ink, lower left: U.S. POST OFFICE. SPROTT, ALABAMA, 1971; inscribed, on reverse, in black ink, lower center: PRINTED 1988; inscribed, on reverse, in black ink, at center: FOR REPRODUCTION / ONLY [circled]; Stamped, on reverse, in black ink, lower right: CHRISTENBERRY; Stamped, on reverse, in purple ink, upper right: EKTAPRO
Course History
WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
Focus on Photography, Works from 1950 to Today, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 13-March 8, 2009.
In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Harrington Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-July 6, 2014.
Reunion display, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Elevator vestibule, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1-October 2, 2005.
Ruscha and Pop: Icons of the 1960's, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 12-June 15, 2008.
The Photographer's Eye, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, SArt 29 & 30, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8-June 13, 2003.
Publication History
Emily Shubert Burke, Focus on Photography, Works for 1950 to Today, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p. 10, no. 14.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.199, no.236.
Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 64, no. 51
Provenance
Marc Efron and Barbara Bares, Washington, D.C.; given to present collection, 2001.
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