Still life set-up with flowers, perhaps for an art class at Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, 1937-1939

Item Overview

Title

Still life set-up with flowers, perhaps for an art class at Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, 1937-1939

Photographer

Farnham, Carolyn Bartlett, 1921-1985

Date Created

[between 1937-1939]

Date

1937/1939

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Still life set-up, perhaps for an art class instruction, is comprised of flowers placed in a shallow ceramic or porcelain bowl, with a decanter placed slightly behind it. A two-panel folding screen acts as a background for the still life. A blurred man on the left who moved during the exposure is wearing a button down shirt and pants. Photographed at Santa Monica High School, probably by Carolyn Bartlett.
Photographs housed with this negative sleeve are related to others from a sleeve labeled "Carolyn's negatives." The photographs are visually and thematically similar. In addition, both sleeves contained photographs of Santa Monica High School structures built between 1937 and 1939 by the Works Project Administration (WPA). Both sleeves also included construction site images, likely related to the WPA’s reconstruction project (image ark nos. 21198/zz002d8j8h and 198/zz002d8k9h).

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: SMHi Art Rm. Open House Nite. [Sleeve is an envelope addressed to Mr. Adelbert Bartlett with postal cancelation: "Los Angeles, Calif., Apr 25, 1937."]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
still lifes
black-and-white photographs
multiple exposure

Names

Santa Monica High School (Santa Monica, Calif.)

Location

California--Santa Monica

Longitude

33.766512

Latitude

-118.190481

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Art--Study and teaching--California--Santa Monica