Jan 25, 2024 - Sale 2657

Sale 2657 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,400 - $ 1,800

MARION POST WOLCOTT (1910-1990)


Daughter of mulatto family returning from fishing. Near Natchitoches, LA.
Silver print, the image measuring 305x229 mm; 12x9 inches, the sheet slightly larger, with Wolcott's signature, title, and negative date in pencil on verso. 1941; printed circa 1980.

This image is alternatively titled Daughter of a Cajun family returning home after fishing in Cane River, Melrose, Louisiana, 1940

Provenance: Marion Post Wolcott; to Jack Welpott; to his daughter, Jan Welpott Danielle

Reproduced: F. Jack Hurley, Marion Post Wolcott: A Photographic Journey (University of New Mexico Press), p. 207; Paul Henrickson, Looking for the Light, The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott (Knopf), p. 63