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MARION POST WOLCOTT (1910-1990) Daughter of mulatto family returning from fishing.
Estimate:
$1,400 - $1,800
Sold
$1,600
Timed Auction
The Artists of the WPA
Description

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
Condition
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