Object number1981.2

Czech Flower Maker at Home

DateApril 1938

Artist Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904-1971)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print, possibly printed 1958

DimensionsImage: 13 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (34 x 25.7 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, E. Powis and Anne Keating Jones, class of 1943, Fund

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, by artist, upper left in pencil: 400; upper center: Czechoslovakia / Village of Obermaxdorf / Czech flower maker at home / 1[circled]; lower center: - czecho.; lower right: 5982; by unidentified hand, lower left: VCAG81.2; on a small sticker affixed to the verso, by unidentified hand, lower left corner in ink: #388 / 3784

MarkingsOn verso, stamped upper center in red ink [vertically]: PHOTO BY MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE; stamped center right in blue ink: 1958; stamped lower left in red ink: PROPERTY OF LIFE

Vassar Exhibitions

Hard Work: Photographs of Labor from the Permanent Collection

DescriptionBlack and white image of the upper half of an older man with tools in his hands and decorative flowers on the table in front of him. The wall to his right has floral wallpaper and an image of the Czechoslovakian President Edvard Beneš.

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