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Wright Morris
American, 1910–1998
![Ed’s Farm [from The Home Place], Vintage silver print, 1947.](/pages/photos/193_574_thumb.jpg)
![Southern Indiana [Interior], Vintage silver print, 1951.](/pages/photos/193_926_thumb.jpg)
![Utah [Weathered Building], Vintage silver print, ca. 1940.](/pages/photos/193_927_thumb.jpg)
![Central City Nebraska [Desk and Telephones], Vintage silver print, 1947.](/pages/photos/193_928_thumb.jpg)
![Nebraska [Desk, Corn and Wheat], Vintage silver print, 1953.](/pages/photos/193_930_thumb.jpg)
![Ed’s Place [Kitchen Stove], Vintage silver print, 1947.](/pages/photos/193_931_thumb.jpg)
![Nebraska [Storage Barn with Tin Roof], Vintage silver print, 1947.](/pages/photos/193_938_thumb.jpg)
![Home Place [Doorway]inner Plate], Vintage silver print, 1947.](/pages/photos/193_940_thumb.jpg)
![Home Place [Plow], Vintage silver print, 1947.](/pages/photos/193_941_thumb.jpg)
![Home Place [Farm Building, Barrel and Broom], Vintage silver print, 1947.](/pages/photos/193_943_thumb.jpg)
![Southern Indiana [Wagon], Vintage silver print, 1949.](/pages/photos/193_944_thumb.jpg)
ReturnIndianaInventory number: 8187
Title: Indiana
Date: 1951
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9¾ in (24.8 cm) high by 7¾ in (19.7 cm) wide
Description: Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the reverse of the print.
Price: $12,000
ReturnEd’s Farm [from The Home Place]Inventory number: 6946
Title: Ed’s Farm [from The Home Place]
Date: 1947
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9⅜ in (23.8 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed, “Wright Morris,” dated, “1947,” titled, “Ed’s Farm,” and inscribed, “For Morris & Kathy,” in pencil, on the mount.
Provenance: Acquired from the photographer; Morris & Katherine Opler, Anthropologists, Univ. of Oklahoma.
Illustrated: Morris, W., The Home Place [1948], p. 128.
Price: $7,000
ReturnRocking ChairInventory number: 4167
Title: Rocking Chair
Date: 1946
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9½ in (24.1 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed in pencil and annotated with printing notations in pencil on reverse of the photograph.
Illustrated: Morris, The Home Place, p. 57.
Price: $6,500
ReturnSouthern Indiana [Interior]Inventory number: 8281
Title: Southern Indiana [Interior]
Date: 1951
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9½ in (24.1 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed, titled and dated in pencil by the photographer on the reverse of the print.
Price: $3,500
ReturnUtah [Weathered Building]Inventory number: 8279
Title: Utah [Weathered Building]
Date: ca. 1940
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9½ in (24.1 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed and titled in pencil on the reverse of the print.
Price: $3,500
ReturnCentral City Nebraska [Desk and Telephones]Inventory number: 8282
Title: Central City Nebraska [Desk and Telephones]
Date: 1947
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 7½ in (19.1 cm) high by 9½ in (24.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed, titled and dated in pencil by the photographer on the reverse of the print.
Price: $4,000
ReturnNebraska [Desk, Corn and Wheat]Inventory number: 8280
Title: Nebraska [Desk, Corn and Wheat]
Date: 1953
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9½ in (24.1 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed, titled and dated in pencil by the photographer on the reverse of the print.
Price: $4,000
ReturnEd’s Place [Kitchen Stove]Inventory number: 8276
Title: Ed’s Place [Kitchen Stove]
Date: 1947
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9½ in (24.1 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed, titled and dated in pencil by the photographer on the reverse of the print.
Notes: Other images of this stove appear in Wright Morris: Structures and Artifacts/Photographs 1933-1954 and Wright Morris: Photographs and Words. The negative has been reversed to make this print.
Price: $4,500
ReturnGano Grain Elevator, Wood River, NebraskaInventory number: 8275
Title: Gano Grain Elevator, Wood River, Nebraska
Date: 1940
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9½ in (24.1 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed, titled and annotated “Wood River, Nebr.-1940” in ink on the reverse of the print.
Notes: The Gano Grain Company operated more than 50 grain elevators in the Midwest, including Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado during the time Morris photographed the structures. As was his practice at times, he reversed the negative to make the print.
Price: $5,000
ReturnGano Grain Elevator, Syracuse, KansasInventory number: 8278
Title: Gano Grain Elevator, Syracuse, Kansas
Date: 1940
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9½ in (24.1 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed and titled by the photographer in pencil and annotated “Wood River, Nebr. – 1940” in ink by the photographer on the reverse of the print.
Notes: The Gano Grain Company operated more than 50 grain elevators in the Midwest, including Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado during the time Morris photographed the structures. As was his practice at times, he reversed the negative to make the print.
Price: $5,000
ReturnJunk PileInventory number: 8277
Title: Junk Pile
Date: ca. 1940
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9½ in (24.1 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed in pencil on the reverse of the print.
Illustrated: Wright Morris, God’s Country and My People [1968], n.p.
Price: $3,500
ReturnNebraska [Storage Barn with Tin Roof]Inventory number: 8321
Title: Nebraska [Storage Barn with Tin Roof]
Date: 1947
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 7½ in (19.1 cm) high by 9½ in (24.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed, titled and dated by the photographer on the reverse of the print.
Price: $4,500
ReturnHome Place [Doorway]inner Plate]Inventory number: 8323
Title: Home Place [Doorway]inner Plate]
Date: 1947
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9½ in (24.1 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed and titled in pencil on the reverse of the print.
Price: $4,000
ReturnHome Place [Plow]Inventory number: 8284
Title: Home Place [Plow]
Date: 1947
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 7½ in (19.1 cm) high by 9½ in (24.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed and titled in pencil on the reverse of the print.
Price: $3,500
ReturnHome Place [Farm Building, Barrel and Broom]Inventory number: 8316
Title: Home Place [Farm Building, Barrel and Broom]
Date: 1947
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9½ in (24.1 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the reverse of the print.
Price: $3,500
ReturnSouthern Indiana [Wagon]Inventory number: 8314
Title: Southern Indiana [Wagon]
Date: 1949
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 7½ in (19.1 cm) high by 9½ in (24.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the reverse of the print.
Price: $3,500
ReturnElectrified Barb Wire FenceInventory number: 8318
Title: Electrified Barb Wire Fence
Date: ca. 1947
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9½ in (24.1 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed in pencil on the reverse of the print.
Price: $3,500
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