Watermelon on the Courthouse Grounds (Pontotoc)

Artist Eudora Welty American, 1909–2001

DatePrinted 1992 from 1930s or early 1940s negative

MediumToned gelatin-silver print

Dimensionsimage: 17 5/16 × 12 5/8 in. (44 × 32.1 cm)
paper: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
frame: 24 7/8 × 20 7/8 × 1 7/8 in. (63.2 × 53 × 4.8 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineGift of Robert P. Venuti in honor of Lawrence J. Wheeler

Object number2016.4.11

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ProvenanceCreated 1930s or early 1940s, Pontotoc, MS; collection of the artist; published by Diogenes Editions with Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS, May 15, 1992; acquired by Robert Venuti, Chapel Hill, NC, 1993; given to NCMA, 2015.

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