Artist Monograph

Jack Delano, American

American, born Russia. 1914–1997

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Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	5	83.3%
Medium (30–100 cm)	1	16.7%

Range: 23.5 cm → 34.8 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1944	1
1959	1
2002	3
2016	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 6 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Boxes of Kenyon's Johnny Cake cornmeal awaiting shipment. Usquepaug, Rhode Island Photograph Acc. 170.2002	December 1940	Gelatin silver print	7 × 9 1/2" (17.8 × 24.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Having a Beer in "Art's Sportsmen's Tavern" in Cole Chester, Connecticut, on a Rainy Day Photograph Acc. 171.2002	November 1940	Gelatin silver print	7 1/8 × 9 11/16" (18.1 × 24.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Hurricane Lumber, Ledyard, Connecticut Photograph Acc. 172.2002	November 1940	Gelatin silver print	7 1/16 × 9 5/8" (18 × 24.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
In the home of Steve Dino, Italian FSA client near Canterbury, Connecticut. His mother sells hooked rugs to suppliment their farm income Photograph Acc. 146.1959	1940	Gelatin silver print	7 9/16 × 9 1/4" (19.2 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Children of Squatter Family Preparing to Move, South Carolina Photograph Acc. 194.1944	1941	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 1/4" (24.1 × 18.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Interior of Negro Rural House, Greene County, Georgia Photograph Acc. 280.2016	June 1941	Gelatin silver print	10 11/16 × 13 11/16" (27.2 × 34.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase