A black-and-white photograph of a young Black girl in a gingham top leaning out of a window.

Delores, Melrose Plantation, Louisiana

Carlotta Corpron (1901-1988)

Date

1950
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 12 7/16 x 9 15/16 in.
Mount: 19 15/16 x 15 15/16 in.
Inscriptions

Overmat:
l.l. titled in graphite: Delores--Melrose Plantation, La
l.r. signed in graphite: Carlotta M. Corpron
Mount Verso:
u.l. in graphite: Delores--grand-daughter of Clementine Hunter, primitive painter \ Melrose Plantation, La \ Photographed while in Melrose plantation with Clarence Laughlin \ who was photographing Clementine Hunter's work for Look magazine 1950
u.r. in graphite: Carlotta M. Corpron \ Denton, Texas \ vintage
u.r. in graphite: vintage \ [label] $750 -
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of the Dorothea Leonhardt Fund of the Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc.
Accession Number

P1985.2.33
Copyright

© 1988 Amon Carter Museum of American Art

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