Crossroads Store near Lincoln, Nebraska
1947
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24.4 × 19.7 cm (9 5/8 × 7 3/4 in.) sheet: 25.5 × 20.3 cm (10 1/16 × 8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Barbara A. Koenig and Stephen E. Arkin in memory of Josephine Morris
Accession Number
2018.15.93
Art Historical Context
**Crossroads Store near Lincoln,** (1947) by Wright Morris captures a quintessential slice of mid-20th-century rural America. This gelatin silver print, measuring about 9⅝ × 7¾ inches, depicts a modest crossroads store near Lincoln, Nebraska—a humble wooden structure amid open plains, evoking the quiet rhythms of small-town life. Morris, a renowned American photographer and novelist (1910–1998), was celebrated for his intimate portraits of the Midwest, blending documentary precision with a poetic sensibility influenced by his literary background. Created just after World War II, the image ref...
About the Artist
Wright Morris
Wright Morris (1910–1998) was a pioneering American photographer whose spare, evocative images captured the textures of rural life on the Great Plains, often paired innovatively with his own prose. Born in Central City, Nebraska, on January 6, 1910, Morris lost his mother, Grace Osborn Morris, just days after his birth; his father, a Union Pacific Railroad worker, remarried Gertrude, and the famil...