Ella Grainger

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Title

Ella Grainger

Subject

Description

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

Date

1933

Type

Identifier

17.0040
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