A black-and-white photograph of a White woman with long, dark hair breastfeeding a baby.

Silent Hour

Nell Dorr (1893-1988)

Date

ca. 1968
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 10 5/8 x 13 5/8 in.
Mount: 16 x 20 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
u.l. signed in ink: Nell Dorr
Verso:
l.l. in ink: #42 From Night and Day Child [marked out] The Silent Hour [marked out] Silent Hour
l.c. in graphite: 8
Mat Verso:
u.l. in graphite: 8
Mount Verso:
l.l. in graphite: $750 -
l.c. typed label from Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery: NELL DORR / Silent Hours from \ [underlined] Night and Day. \ Published 1968
Collection Name

Nell Dorr Estate Collection
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of the Estate of Nell Dorr
Accession Number

P1990.45.233
Copyright

© 1990 Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Location: Off view

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