Ella Grainger

Ella Grainger

Silver gelatin print. 35.2 x 27.2 cm Swedish artist, poet and amateur musician Ella Viola Ström (1889-1979) married Grainger in 1928. Here she is depicted on her veranda in White Plains, New York, in a photograph taken by her neighbour, the commercial photographer Fred Morse. Clothing design was one of Ella Grainger’s interests, and in this photograph she is modelling a recent creation. The coat, made of blue bath mat fabric, was worn variously by Ella and Percy Grainger, and it still in the Grainger Museum Collection

1933

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