North Albany, Indiana
1954
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24.6 × 19.5 cm (9 11/16 × 7 11/16 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
2018.15.107
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...