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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
MORRIS, WRIGHT (1910-1998) Portfolio titled "Wright Morris" with 12 (of 12) photographs depicting the American scene in the 1940s. Silver prints, each measuring approximately 9 1/2x7 1/2 inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with Morris' signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and with the Witkin-Berley portfolio label with the print and edition number 36, in pencil, on mount verso. Small folio, cream cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered brown leather title label, cloth lightly soiled; the colophon, also with the edition number; contents loose as issued. one of an edition of 50. 1940-50; printed 1980
From the Estate of Lee Witkin; by descent to the present owner. "Gano Grain Elevator," Western Kansas, 1940 "Ed's Place," near Norfolk, Nebraska, 1947 "House in Winter," Eastern Nebraska, 1941 "Front Room Reflected in Mirror," The Home Place, near Norfolk, Nebraska, 1947 "Barbershop," Weeping Water, Nebraska, 1947 "Dresser Drawer," near Norfolk, Nebraska, 1947 "Model T in Shed," The Home Place, near Norfolk, Nebraska, 1947 "Barber Pole," Weeping Water, Nebraska, 1947 "Juke Box," Southern Indiana, 1950 "Church Facade," near Rahway, New Jersey, 1940 "Powerhouse and Palm Tree," near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1940 "Uncle Harry," The Home Place, near Norfolk, Nebraska, 1947.
