Richard Carver Wood photographs of the dedication of To the Morrow
name: label: Photographer
content: Wood, Richard Carver
label: Names
content: Force, Juliana, 1876-1948
label: Names
content: La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947
label: Names
content: Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2010 by Avis Berman, who received the photographs from Carl Rieser, nephew of Julianna Force, first Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
creator: label: Photographer
content: Wood, Richard Carver
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Richard Carver Wood was a photographer and architect in New York, N.Y. and Cambridge, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1939
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.woodrich
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Four b&w mounted photographs taken by Richard Carver Wood of the dedication of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sculpture, "To the Morrow," created for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Pictured in the photographs with the sculpture are Whitney, Juliana Force, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and Grover Whalen, the official World's Fair greeter, among others.