About the Artwork
Memorial Meeting, Breathitt County, KY, August 1940
1940
Marion Post Wolcott
1910 - 1990
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 10 3/8 × 13 3/8 inches (26.4 × 34 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Albert and Peggy de Salle Charitable Trust
1994.12
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, on sheet, lower right, verso: Marion Post Wolcott
Inscribed, in pencil, on sheet, top, verso: Preacher, relatives + friends of the deceased at a memorial meeting | near Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky. Aug, 1940 | printed in the F>S>A> lab. Ca. 1940 - 41 Inscribed, in pencil, on sheet, lower left, verso: An original vintage FSA print | from the personal collection of M.P.W. | Marion Post Wolcott Inscribed, in pencil, on sheet, center, verso: 31074W4
Provenance
Linda Wolcott Moore (Mill Valley, California, USA)
1994-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Marion Post Wolcott, Memorial Meeting, Breathitt County, KY, August 1940, 1940, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Albert and Peggy de Salle Charitable Trust, 1994.12.
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