Culpeper, Virginia

1939

Wright Morris

Associated Names
Wright Morris

Artist, American, 1910 - 1998

The image shows an old wooden house in the center, with a tree on the right side. The house has a gabled roof with a chimney, weathered wooden panels, simple doors and windows with broken panes, and a porch on slender columns. The black and white photo emphasizes light and shadow, texture, and forms. There is vegetation at the bottom.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1946

  • Morris, Wright. The Inhabitants. New York, 1946: n.p.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, bottom right in graphite: Wright Morris; by unknown hand, top left in black ink: Culpepper, Va.; upper left in graphite circled: 24; center in graphite: 6 x 6

Wikidata ID

Q64169962

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