
Figures in the Rain
Catalogue
- Year
- 1955
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 25.5 × 34.2 cm (10 1/16 × 13 1/2 in.); Mount: 35.6 × 45.8 cm (14 1/16 × 18 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Pirkle Jones
Artist

Photography
Pirkle Jones was an American photographer whose work documents postwar American life with a focus on rural communities, labor, and social conditions. Active from the 1940s onward, his black-and-white photographs combine documentary rigor with a humanistic sensibility. Jones worked in the tradition of social documentary photography, capturing everyday scenes and portraiture that reveal the textures of American working life during and after World War II.
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Untitled
1976 · Gelatin silver print
San Joaquin County, Stockton, California
1975 · Gelatin silver print
Storey County Court House, Virginia City, Nevada
1969 · Gelatin silver print
Worker, Saratoga, California
1958 · Gelatin silver print, from "Portfolio Two: Twelve Photographs by Prikle Jones" (1968)
Cowboy, Arizona
1957 · Gelatin silver print, from "Portfolio Two: Twelve Photographs by Prikle Jones" (1968)
Grape Picker, Berryessa, California
1956 · Gelatin silver print, from "Portfolio Two: Twelve Photographs by Prikle Jones" (1968)
Record
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- Pirkle Jones
- Year
- 1955
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 25.5 × 34.2 cm (10 1/16 × 13 1/2 in.); Mount: 35.6 × 45.8 cm (14 1/16 × 18 1/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1955-060750
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





