Straightback Chair, 1947

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series Title

The Home Place

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24.4 × 19.8 cm (9 5/8 × 7 13/16 in.)

sheet: 25.4 × 20.5 cm (10 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Barbara A. Koenig and Stephen E. Arkin in memory of Josephine Morris

Accession Number

2018.15.12

Artists / Makers

Wright Morris (artist) American, 1910 - 1998

Image Use

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Inscription

by unknown hand, bottom left in black ink: No. 9; on verso, signed by artist, bottom left in graphite: Wright Morris; by unknown hand, top left in graphite crossed out circled: 16[?]; top center in blue pencil: 37; top right in graphite circled and crossed out in black ink: 8/0; upper left in orange pencil crossed out in black ink: 18; upper right in graphite: 170 / 15 / [line] / 1.55; across center in graphite crossed out with black ink: [arrow] 5 3/4 [arrow]; center in red pencil crossed out with black ink: M 40; lower right in graphite crossed out in black ink: [illegible] / .91 / [illegible] / [illegible]; bottom left in graphite circled: 70MC

Provenance

Barbara A. Koenig and Stephen E. Arkin, San Francisco, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Arkin, Stephen

Bibliography

1948: Morris, Wright. The Home Place. New York, 1948: 40.