Coal Miner’s Daughter Carrying Kerosene, Company Housing, Scotts Run, West Virginia

1938, printed 1980

Marion Post Wolcott

Artist, American, 1910 - 1990

Marion Post Wolcott

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    R. K. Mellon Family Foundation

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.51 × 22.38 cm (6 1/2 × 8 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.44.10


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Bonhams, San Francisco, 2003); Ron Perisho, Gettysburg, PA; NGA purchase, 2025.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, on verso, lower right corner in graphite: Marion Post Wolcott; along top: Coal miner's daughter carrying home can of kerosene, / Scotts Run, W.Va. 1938 / Archivally processed by MPW 1980 / selenium toned " "; by unknown hand, top left corner: ST; center: 30180M2


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