About the Artwork
Farewell to the Past (Belle Grove Plantation)
1945
Clarence John Laughlin
1905-1985
American
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Gelatin silver print
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 7/8 inches (24.8 × 20 cm) Mount: 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Matilda R. Wilson Fund
F1988.11
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
Inscribed, on verso of mount, in ball point pen, upper right after "No": F-65 Inscribed, on verso of mount, in ball point pen, crossed out, upper right: F-60 Inscribed, on verso of mount, in ball point pen, upper left: 2920 | [encircled] | 9 P | use Inscribed, on verso of mount, in ball point pen, red pen, and red pencil on self-adhesive label, upper right: F-65 | X 283 | 284 Inscribed, on verso of mount, in pencil, center left: COL# 443G 08101 | RWG#L8710 4050 Inscribed, on verso of mount, in ball point pen, center: #2920 | BH 261 | 3/8/46 | #19 in set Inscribed, on verso of mount, in pencil, lower right: L [en-circled] | 10/62 Inscribed, on verso of mount, in ball point pen over pencil "L," lower right: L Inscribed, on verso of mount, in ball point pen, lower right: re [underscored] - L [encircled] 10/74 Inscribed, on verso of mount, in ball point pen, lower left: The Revenant Inscribed, on verso of mount, in ball point pen, lower right: Farewell to the Past (#4) Inscribed, on verso of mount, in pencil, lower right corner: 20
Stamped, on the verso of the mount, upper right: Print No______ | C.L. LAUGHLIN | 627 DECATUR STREET | NEW ORLEANS, 16, LA | ALL REPRODUCTION AND AD- |VERTISING RIGHTS RETAINED | BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER Stamped, on the verso of the mount, upper center: Photograph by Clarence John Laughlin | © THE [illegible] NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION Stamped, on the verso of the mount, top left edge: [instriptions cut off and illegible]
Provenance
until 1988, Elizabeth Laughlin (New Orleans, Lousiana, USA).1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 64, no. 2-3 (1988): p. 26 (fig. 18).
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Clarence John Laughlin, Farewell to the Past (Belle Grove Plantation), 1945, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Matilda R. Wilson Fund, F1988.11.
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