A Home in the Mississippi Delta

1963

Danny Lyon

Associated Names
Danny Lyon

Artist, American, born 1942

This is a photograph of a wooden house with a porch in a rural environment. The image shows a small house with a tin roof and wooden plank construction, situated on raised brick supports. The front porch features wooden steps, and several rectangular windows adorn the front facade of the house. In the foreground, tires and wooden debris can be seen on the left, while a laundry line with clothes hanging to dry is visible on the right. The environment around the house suggests an open rural area with grass and an expansive open sky. The overall feel of the photograph is one of simplicity and rustic charm, capturing a moment in time reflective of rural life.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 11 × 18.9 cm (4 5/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 12 × 20.2 cm (4 3/4 × 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.111

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Simon Lowinsky Gallery, New York); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, bottom center in graphite: Danny Lyon; center: Mississippi delta- / houses within / a mile of / each other; top left printed in black ink on applied sticker: BLACKS / THE MOVEMENT; by unknown hand, along left edge in graphite: The Movement- Book Print; upper left stamped in black ink perpendicular: Photographed By / Danny Lyon / © 1969 MAGNUM PHOTOS / 72 West 45th Street, N.Y.C. 10036; by unknown hand, center in blue pencil perpendicular: #22 [?]; center stamped in blue ink: MAGNUM / PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT / NEW YORK / LOG REF. / TO BE RETURNED.; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: Rear cropped / (1963) Mississippi / Delta; lower left in blue pencil: 41-4; lower center in blue ink circled: G2; lower right stamped in red ink: Printer [by unknown hand in graphite: DL] / BLEAK BEAUTY / [by unknown hand in graphite: 1963 1963] / PICTURE DATE PRINT DATE

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