Porch
1947
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 23.7 × 18.8 cm (9 5/16 × 7 3/8 in.) sheet: 25.4 × 20.4 cm (10 × 8 1/16 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
2018.15.75
Art Historical Context
**Porch**, a captivating gelatin silver print by Wright Morris from 1947, invites visitors to linger on the quiet poetry of everyday American life. Captured in the years following World War II, this intimate photograph exemplifies Morris's signature style as a mid-20th-century photographer novelist. Known for his-like images of the rural Midwest—often Nebraska farmsteads and small-town vernacular architecture—Morris transformed ordinary scenes into profound meditations on time, memory, and place. The modest dimensions (image: 23.7 × 18.8 cm) draw the eye to subtle details, evoking a sense of n...
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...