Stove: "The Home Place" Detail
1947
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Merrily and Tony Page: Page Imageworks
Accession Number
1997.55.1
Art Historical Context
In 1947, American photographer and novelist Wright Morris captured *Stove: "The Home Place" Detail*, a poignant gelatin silver print that zooms in on a weathered kitchen stove from an abandoned Nebraska farmhouse. Part of his seminal project *The Home Place*, this image reflects post-World War II America's shifting landscapes, where rural heartlands faced depopulation amid urbanization and economic change. Morris, often compared to Walker Evans for his straight photography style, documented these vanishing vernacular spaces with a quiet reverence, turning everyday objects into emblems of memor...
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...