Ladd and Tilton Bank (1868 Southwest First Avenue and Stark Street)
Minor White, Ladd and Tilton Bank (1868 Southwest First Avenue and Stark Street), ca. 1939, gelatin silver print, Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration. New Deal Art Project, public domain, L42.3.34
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- Title
Ladd and Tilton Bank (1868 Southwest First Avenue and Stark Street)
- Related Titles
inscribed: Ladd and Tilton Bank
- Artist
- Date
ca. 1939
- Medium
gelatin silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 13 9/16 in x 10 5/8 in; sheet: 13 9/16 in x 10 5/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
title: Ladd + Tilton Bank, graphite, bottom left
signature: Minor White, graphite, bottom right
- Collection Area
Photography; Northwest Art
- Category
Books, Portfolios, and Manuscripts
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration. New Deal Art Project
- Accession Number
L42.3.34
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- Place Made
Created in and depicts: Portland
Created in and depicts: Oregon
Constructed in 1868, the Ladd and Tilton Bank building, designed by architect John Nestor, was based on Venice's sixteenth-century Libreria Vecchia (Old Library) and stood until 1954, when it was demolished to make way for a parking lot. In 1967, portions of its original cast-iron facade, created by Willamette Iron Works and saved from demolition, were added to the newly expanded and remodeled US Bank building in Salem, Oregon, whose original iron-front facade had been created from the same Willamette Iron Works molds.
Perhaps surprisingly, White's photograph does not clearly define the elaborate iron work of the building's magnificent facade. Much of the building is cast in dense shadow, with only its cut-off corner entryway bathed in light. A fluffy cloud in the distance serves as the lone uncontrolled shape in the composition.
- Exhibitions
2018 In the Beginning: Minor White's Oregon Photographs, Phase 2 Portland Art Museum