Shacks Condemned by Board of Health, Formerly Occupied by Migrant Laborers and Pickers, Belle Glade, Florida
January 1940, printed 1984
Marion Post Wolcott
Artist, American, 1910 - 1990
Artwork overview
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Medium
dye imbibition print
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. Lee Minichiello and Mr. J. Kent Minichiello)
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Dimensions
image: 17 × 24.5 cm (6 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 33.02 cm (10 × 13 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.4332
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
LIGHT Gallery, New York; Lee and Kent Minichiello, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Yancey Perkinson/Lumina Inc., New York), 1984; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1987
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 14 – April 19, 1987
Inscriptions
on verso, lower left stamped in black ink: This will authenticate that this print is one / of a limited edition of 250 Dye Transfer prints / made by LIGHT Gallery, of 724 Fifth Avenue, / New York, N.Y. 10019, from the original Farm / Security Administration transparencies held by / the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. / [dotted line]; by unknown hand, annotation in graphite along dotted line in stamp: [Tennyson School?]; bottom center stamped: ARTIST: / TITLE: / TRANSPARENCY DATE: / PRINTING DATE: / LIGHT GALLERY REG. NO.:; by unknown hand, annotations in graphite: MARION POST WOLCOTT / SHACKS CONDEMNED BY BOARD OF HEALTH, FORMERLY / OCCUPIED BY MIGRANT LABORERS AND PICKERS, BELLE GLADE, FLA. / JAN. 1940 / 1984 / 180.18; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in red pencil: 1984.27.50
Wikidata ID
Q64157751