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Collections

Marion Post Wolcott
Defense Housing1941

Not on view
Black and white photograph of a man and several young children outside a white clapboard building, with a large white sheet billowing through the air above them

Marion Post Wolcott, Defense Housing, 1941, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Marion Post Wolcott
United States, 1910-1990
Title
Defense Housing
Date Made
1941
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 8 15/16 × 12 1/16 in. (22.7 × 30.64 cm) Primary support: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. (27.62 × 35.24 cm) Mat: 15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (40.32 × 50.48 cm)
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.2478
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Road Trip: Photography of the American West: Photographies XIXe-XXIe Siècles du Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bordeaux: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, 2014.