Untitled from the "Falling House and Barn" series

Artist/Maker Silvia Saunders (American, 1901 - 1994)

Datec. 1931-1937

MediumGelatin silver print on paper

DimensionsComposition: 4 1/2 × 6 7/16 in. (11.4 × 16.4 cm) Sheet: 4 3/4 × 6 11/16 in. (12.1 × 17 cm) Support: 9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm) Frame: 11 1/8 × 13 1/8 × 1 5/8 in. (28.3 × 33.3 × 4.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Edward W. Root, W1905, P1944, H1952

Object number1969.2.2

Not on view

Description“Here is a continuous ‘movie’ that I made of the old farmhouse and barn which still stood, in the early thirties, just beneath the high point about 3 miles west of the College, that we local people call ‘Prospect.’ The barn fell before the house did, but in the end the house fell too, and I went up in the following Spring and made the last picture.” (SOURCE: “Photographs by Silvia Saunders,” exh. cat. (Clinton, NY: The Edward W. Root Art Center, 1966).

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Additional Details

Alternate Titles Falling House and Barn #2

Exhibition History Clinton, NY, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Photographs by Silvia Saunders," June 21 - September 16, 2007 (no cat.).

Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Photographs by Silvia Saunders," June 18 - Aug. 14, 1983 (Extended to Sept. 15, 1983) (no cat.).

Clinton, NY. Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Affinity Atlas," October 6, 2012 - April 7, 2013 (brochure).

Provenance 1969: Hamilton College by gift of Mrs. Edward W. [Grace C.] Root

Markings Adhesive exhibition label from Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY with typewritten information including: Silvia Saunders / FALLING HOUSE AND BARN #2 / [size] / photograph / HC. 203 Gift of Mrs. Edw. W. Root

Inscribed Inscribed in pencil on back at upper center: Farm house and Barn [sic]; at lower left: Falling House and Barn 2 [encircled]; at lower right: R; sideways at center right: 4B