Home Place, Ed's Place near Norfolk, Nebraska

1947

Wright Morris

Associated Names
Wright Morris

Artist, American, 1910 - 1998

This is a photograph of a domestic interior space with a kitchen visible through a doorway. The main focus is an interior room with a patterned floor, a daybed with rumpled bedding against the wall, a wooden chair, and an open doorway leading into a kitchen area. In the kitchen, a large vintage stove with various kitchen items resting on its surface and a stovepipe extending towards the ceiling can be seen. The photograph has a sense of everyday life, capturing a moment in a humble, lived-in home. The lighting is soft, creating gentle shadows that enhance the textures of the floor and furniture. The presence of a bucket on the floor adds to the sense of domestic activity in progress.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, perpendicular along top right edge in graphite: Wright Morris '47; perpendicular along bottom right edge in graphite: Home Place; by unknown hand, top left in graphite: 2A

Wikidata ID

Q64170226

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