Swimming Pool, Welch, West Virginia
Artist
O. Winston Link
(American, 1914-2001)
CultureAmerican
Date1958
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 15 5/8 × 19 1/2 in. (39.7 × 49.5 cm)
Overall, Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 25 × 28 in. (63.5 × 71.1 cm)
Overall, Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 25 × 28 in. (63.5 × 71.1 cm)
InscribedSigned and dated by the artist in pencil on the verso of the print. Artist's Studio stamp on the verso of the print.
Credit LineGift of Susan and David Goode
Object number2023.26.24
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print.Label TextO. Winston Link American (1914-2001) SWIMMING POOL Welch, West Virginia, 1958 L2004.11.94 By August 1958, when this photograph was made, Winston Link's work was well known to all the employees of the N&W. Link had let the dispatcher on the Pocahontas Division know where he would be working that evening, and the engine crews had been instructed to make sure they weren't making much smoke as they passed the municipal swimming pool in Welch, West Virginia, the county seat of McDowell County. This is the second swimming pool photograph Link attempted, and the lighting and composition are much surer than the previous one, made near Bluefield, West Virginia, two summers previously. Here Anne Barnes, Vesta Kitchens and Nilda Ramella chat with Leroy "Corky" Zider, Winston's teen-age nephew, the big city boy from New York, and one of Link's best assistants. Edited By: DS Approved By: MHM Approval Date: 07/25/2005Exhibition History"Norfolk and Western Railway Photographs by O. Winston Link," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., July 1 - December 31, 2005. Published ReferencesPhotographs by O. Winston Link, text by Timothy Hensley, _Steam, Steel & Stars: America's Last Steam Railroad_ (New York: Abrams, 1987), 122-123.
