Jack Whinery, homesteader, with family, Pie Town, New Mexico
Artist
Russell Lee
(American, 1903 - 1986)
DateOctober 1940; printed ca. 1985
MediumDye transfer print
DimensionsImage: 6 9/16 × 10 inches (16.67 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 1/16 inches (25.24 × 33.18 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 1/16 inches (25.24 × 33.18 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.141
SignedOn sheet verso, lower left, black stamp with pencil: “This will authenticate that this print is one / of a limited edition of 250 Dye Transfer prints / made by LIGHT Gallery, of 724 Fifth Avenue, / New York, N.Y. 10019 from the original Farm / Security Administration transparencies held by / the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. / Tennsyon Schad [signature]”
InscribedOn sheet verso, lower left, black stamp with pencil: “ARTIST: Russell Lee / TITLE: Jack Whinery, homesteader and his family, Pie town, new mexico Fair / TRANSPARENCY DATE: OCT 1940 / PRINTING DATE: / LIGHT GALLERY REG. NO.: 319.11”.
MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper left corner, in pencil: “RWFA 2011”;
On sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: “PF112919-111”.
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DescriptionFull color family portrait of family. Parents with five children in front of brown cardboard covered wallsGallery LabelMost FSA photographs were produced using black-and-white film. Several photographers, however, also worked in color. To make this image, Lee used Kodachrome. This slide film rendered its subjects with rich, saturated tones that convey the color of fabrics and advertisements of the time.
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
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Russell Lee
October 1940; printed 1981-1982
2016.75.142
