Esther Bubley
At the Humble Station, general store and post office operated by Joe Leighton, neighboring ranchers often gather for a game, Vanderpool, TX

At the Humble Station, general store and post office operated by Joe Leighton, neighboring ranchers often gather for a game, Vanderpool, TX

© Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection, Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

At the Humble Station, general store and post office operated by Joe Leighton, neighboring ranchers often gather for a game, Vanderpool, TX
At the Humble Station, general store and post office operated by Joe Leighton, neighboring ranchers often gather for a game, Vanderpool, TX
ArtistAmerican, 1921–1998
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • At the Humble Station, general store and post office operated by Joe Leighton, neighboring ranchers often gather for a game, Vanderpool, TX
Date1945
Place depictedVanderpool, Texas, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 9/16 × 10 3/8 in. (26.8 × 26.4 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 7/8 in. (27.9 × 35.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Kenneth Polin
Object number2014.759
Non exposé

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Department
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Description


Esther Bubley was one of the first women to make a living in the male-dominated world of photojournalism in the 1940s and 1950s. Making photographs primarily for publication, Bubley also received recognition in the art world. Edward Steichen included her photographs in several exhibitions he curated at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and she had a solo show in 1956 at Limelight Gallery, the city’s premier photography gallery in the 1950s. Bubley was particularly known for her pictures of ordinary people, of all walks of life, in the course of their everyday lives.









ProvenanceKenneth Polin, San Diego; given to MFAH, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, top center: B
Inscribed in pencil, verso, left center edge reading vertically: 26403[upside down] // 67 (B) Vanderpool, TX SONJ // #26403
not signed

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