This is a warm-toned, black-and-white image of a plain, above-ground monumental tomb.
Tomb by Louis Sullivan

1950

Signed in pencil, verso

Vintage gelatin silver print

6.25 x 9.5 inches

$600

This is a photograph depicting the Wainwright Tomb, a mausoleum located in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Originally constructed for Charlotte Dickson Wainwright in 1892, the tomb also contains the remains of her husband, Ellis Wainwright. The mausoleum was designed by noted Chicago school architect Louis Sullivan, who also designed the Wainwright Building for Ellis Wainwright.

Work by Aaron Siskind (1903-1991)