North Dakota Landscape
Catalogue
- Year
- 1940
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 9 13/16 × 13 1/4" (24.9 × 33.7 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- John Vachon
Artist

Photography
John Vachon was an American photographer who documented rural and small-town America during the Great Depression and postwar years. Working for the Farm Security Administration and later as a freelance photojournalist, he produced black-and-white photographs that captured the texture of American life with particular attention to domestic interiors, street scenes, and portraits. His work was marked by an observational clarity that avoided sentimentality while recording the material conditions and social fabric of mid-century communities.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- John Vachon
- Year
- 1940
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 9 13/16 × 13 1/4" (24.9 × 33.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1940-M114020
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Status
- verified





