Unloading tobacco from trailer into baskets according to the grade, the night before auction sale in warehouse, Durham, North Carolina

November 1939

Marion Post Wolcott

Associated Names
Marion Post Wolcott

Artist, American, 1910 - 1990

This is a photograph of an indoor setting involving dried leaves. The image shows bundles of leaves stacked neatly in layers on a flatbed truck parked inside a wooden structure. The composition of the photograph suggests a moment involving the handling or display of the leaves. The lighting highlights the texture of the dried leaves and casts shadows in the wooden surroundings.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.5 × 24.3 cm (7 5/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.6 × 25.4 cm (8 1/8 × 10 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.30.164

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 15 September 1995; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top right in graphite: 800-H539; upper center: 142; upper center FSA stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, center in graphite inverted: 52809-D; lower center: Post; lower center printed in black ink inverted: Unloading tobacco from trailer into baskets according to the grade, the night before auction sale. / in warehouse. Durham, North Carolina Nov. 1939; lower right FSA credit stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: PW7143

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