Untitled

1930

Piet Zwart

Associated Names
Piet Zwart

Artist, Dutch, 1885 - 1977

This is a black and white photograph of stacks of lumber in a warehouse. The interior of the warehouse is filled with neatly organized piles of wooden planks, sorted and stacked throughout. The warehouse has high ceilings with large windows along the walls, allowing natural light in. The rows of wood create depth and perspective in the space. The atmosphere is industrial and functional, reflecting the purpose of the warehouse as a storage and distribution hub for lumber.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 12.07 × 17 cm (4 3/4 × 6 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.22.69

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Piet Zwart, Wassenaar, Netherlands. Joshua P. Smith, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Barbara Leibowits Graphics, New York), 1983; acquired by NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite circled: 2; vertical along right edge in orange pencil: foto. [print?] [indecipherable] / no. 221; vertical along center right edge in graphite: 221; center stamped in green ink: piet zwart rijksstraatweg 290 / wassenaar holland; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 1983.115.14

Wikidata ID

Q64158826

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