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Stove: "The Home Place" Detail

1947

Wright Morris

Associated Names

Wright Morris

Artist, American, 1910 - 1998

The image shows a vintage iron on a metallic stove with a stovepipe extending upward. The color palette is metallic and grayscale, matching the black and white aesthetics. The stove is centered in the lower half of the frame, while the iron is placed to the right of the stovepipe. In the background, there is a wallpaper with floral motifs.

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Gift of Merrily and Tony Page: Page Imageworks
Dimensions

image/sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Accession Number

1997.55.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Merrily and Tony Page, San Francisco, CA; gift to NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Tony and Merrily Page

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Wright Morris; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: PIC072

Wikidata ID

Q64169960

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