Eroded Soil

Primary TitleFaulkner Country, near Oxford, Mississippi

Artist Wright Morris (American, 1910 - 1998)

Date1940; printed ca. 1975

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (19.05 x 24.13 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.1985

InscribedSignature Signed in artist's hand Back of Print

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DescriptionClose-up of heavily eroded mound of dirt in foreground fill lower two-thirds of frame. A smaill house in and thick clouds in background.Provenance

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Purchased from the artist by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1981;
Given by Halmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

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