Artist
Jack Delano(American, born Ukraine, 1914–1997)American, born Ukraine, 1914–1997
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Sharecropper and Wife, Georgia
- Negro preacher and his wife sitting under photos taken of them twenty years ago. They live in an old converted schoolhouse with two grandchildren. The rest of their children have moved out of the county. Heard County, Georgia
DateApril 1941, printed 1976
PlaceGeorgia, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/2 × 10 1/16 in. (34.3 × 25.6 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky
Object number76.384
Not on view
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PhotographyObject Type
Exhibition History"The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Progue, c/o U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C., August 1–September 30, 1989.
"Introducing America to Americans: Depression-era Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, June 10–September 9, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top right in pencil "RS 53142[underlined] / F34-43918"
bottom right corner "Jack Delano"
bottom right corner "Jack Delano"
verso lower left a stamp "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"
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