2010.540.6: Dresser Drawer, near Norfolk, Nebraska
PhotographsThe photograph shows the edge of the top of a dresser and an open drawer. The open drawer is at the bottom of the image, there are bottoms of empty cardboard boxes on the left, a box of medication from O. E. Bullis and a box of Remington Express shotgun shells along the back of the drawer. On the right in front are two round flashlights. The edge of the dresser is at the top of the image. The surface is covered with a cloth. There are photographs on the left, the end of a black and silver tube, a pocket watch and chain in the center to the right is a dark bristled hairbrush and another object attached to a chain on the right.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2010.540.6
- People
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Wright Morris, American (Central City, Nebraska, USA 1910 - 1998 Mill Valley, California)
- Title
- Dresser Drawer, near Norfolk, Nebraska
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: The Wright Morris Portfolio
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1947, printed later
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Nebraska
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/337023
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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19.1 x 24.1 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
mount: 35.5 x 43 cm (14 x 16 15/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: recto, b.r. below image, in graphite: Wright Morris
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label: verso, bottom center, pre-printed label and graphite: The Wright Morris Portfolio [over] 1 [over] print number [over] set number [over] 43 [over] From a portfolio [over] containing twelve prints [over] and limited to fifty sets. [over] Published 1980 by [over] Witkin-Berley, Ltd. [over] Roslyn Heights, New York 11577
- inscription: verso, b.l. in graphite: from 98718-111
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York] sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2010.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- 43/50
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs
- Copyright
- © Estate of Wright Morris, Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography
- Accession Year
- 2010
- Object Number
- 2010.540.6
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/30/2017 - 10/19/2017
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