Jacobs House (Jacobs-Dolph House, Southwest Park Avenue and Montgomery Street)
Minor White, Jacobs House (Jacobs-Dolph House, Southwest Park Avenue and Montgomery Street), ca. 1939, gelatin silver print, Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration. New Deal Art Project, public domain, L42.2.10
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- Title
Jacobs House (Jacobs-Dolph House, Southwest Park Avenue and Montgomery Street)
- Related Titles
inscribed: Jacobs House
- Artist
- Date
ca. 1939
- Medium
gelatin silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 13 9/16 in x 10 1/2 in; sheet: 13 9/16 in x 10 1/2 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
title: Jacobs House, graphite, bottom left
signature: Minor White, graphite, bottom right
- Collection Area
Photography; Northwest Art
- Category
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
L42.2.10
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- Place Made
Created in and depicts: Portland
Created in and depicts: Oregon
Once part of a pair of adjacent homes built for brothers Ralph and Isaac Jacobs in 1880 along the South Park Blocks (now the location of the Vue Apartments), the Jacobs House was an influential example of the Italianate style, which looked to aspects of Italian Renaissance architecture for inspiration. White's photograph, made from an unusually low viewpoint, outlines some of the mansion's stylistic elements, but emphasis is placed on the landscape, suggesting a private and picturesque yard. In 1942, White returned to the Jacobs House to photograph it thoroughly. A number of these later images of the mansion are on view nearby.
- Exhibitions
2018 In the Beginning: Minor White's Oregon Photographs, Phase 2 Portland Art Museum
