Toward the Sugar House, Vermont
1944
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
overall: 24.2 x 19.3 cm (9 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Southwestern Bell Corporation Paul Strand Collection
Accession Number
1990.44.6
Art Historical Context
**Toward the Sugar House,** (1944) is a captivating gelatin silver print by Paul Strand, measuring 24.2 x 19.3 cm, now housed in the National Gallery of Art photography department. This intimate black-and-white photograph gazes across a serene Vermont landscape, drawing the viewer toward a distant sugar house—a humble structure central to the region's maple syrup tradition. Captured during World War II, it evokes the quiet endurance of rural America amid global turmoil. Paul Strand (1890–1976), a pioneering modernist photographer influenced by Alfred Stieglitz, championed "straight photograph...
About the Artist
Paul Strand
Paul Strand (1890–1976), born Nathaniel Paul Stransky in Brooklyn, New York, to Bohemian immigrant parents Jacob and Matilda Stransky, discovered photography at age twelve with a camera gifted by his father. Enrolled at the progressive Ethical Culture Fieldston School, he studied under documentary photographer Lewis W. Hine and critic Charles Caffin from 1904 to 1909, where Hine instilled a commit...