Mr. Bennett, Vermont

1944

Paul Strand

Associated Names
Paul Strand

Artist, American, 1890 - 1976

The image shows a man standing in front of a wooden structure. He faces the camera with a slightly angled body. The man has a lined face with wrinkles, a light complexion, and a gray beard. He is wearing a cap, a textured jacket, and a striped shirt. A string is looped through a buttonhole on his jacket. The background consists of horizontal wooden planks with grain and knots.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation, Millerton, NY; Southwestern Bell Corporation, St. Louis, MO; gift to NGA, 1991

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Greenough 1990, p. 161, illus. p. 105

  • Paul Strand: An American Vision, National Gallery of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; Saint Louis Art Museum; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco; Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990 - 1992, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1945

  • "Photographs from 1915-1945 by Paul Strand." Cue 14 (28 April 1945): 10.

  • Newhall, Nancy. Paul Strand. Photographs 1915-1945. New York, 1945:, 31.

1971

  • Paul Strand. A Retrospective Monograph. The Years 1915-1968 (Millerton, 1971), p. 152

1972

  • "The Vision of Paul Strand." PSA Journal 38 (August 1972), p. 20

1976

  • Paul Strand. Sixty Years of Photographs (Millerton, 1976), p. 88

1981

  • Himmel, Eric. "Pilgrim's Progress." Camera Arts 1 (Nov.-Dec. 1981), p. 20

1987

  • Hawarth-Booth, Mark. Paul Strand. Aperture Masters of Photography. Number One (Millerton, 1987), p. 23

  • Paul Strand (Zurich, 1987), vol. I, pl. 62

1990

  • Greenough 1990, p. 161, illus. p. 105

Inscriptions

on center verso in green ink: Mr. Bennett / East Jamaica, Vt. / 1943 / Paul Strand; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 2. NE-POR-702 / gift/P-H

Wikidata ID

Q64158692

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