Uncle Harry, outside Norfolk, Nebraska

1947

Wright Morris

Associated Names
Wright Morris

Artist, American, 1910 - 1998

The image depicts a man seen from the back, standing upright with hands clasped behind his back. He has short, light-colored hair and is wearing a dark, long-sleeved shirt under light-colored, vertically striped overalls. There is a tear in the fabric of his right sleeve near the elbow. He also wears a dark, wide-brimmed hat with a hole in it. The background is shadowed with a wooden structure on the left side and the ground appears to be covered in straw or dry grass.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1948

  • Morris, Wright. The Home Place. New York, 1948: 51.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, bottom right in graphite: Wright Morris; by unknown hand, top right in graphite circled: 91.5; top center in red pencil: 2/3 [circled] No51[?]; center right in graphite circled and underlined: 50; across center in graphite: [arrow] 5 3/4 [arrow]; center in graphite circled: 19; lower left in graphite: BLOW / UP / 3X; lower right in graphite: B455-90 / [line] / 91 / no 1205[illegible]

Wikidata ID

Q64170228

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