May 08, 2025 - Sale 2703

Sale 2703 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
WRIGHT MORRIS (1910-1998)
Portfolio titled "Wright Morris." 1940-50; printed 1981.
Complete with 12 photographs depicting the American scene in the 1940s. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 17x14 inches (43.2x35.6 cm.), each with Morris' signature in pencil on mount recto, and the Witkin-Berley portfolio label with the print and set number in pencil on mount verso. Folio, cream cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered brown leather title label; the colophon with the edition notation "forty-seven" in pencil; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 50. New York: Witkin-Berley, Ltd.

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