Two Women at a Modernist House, 1950s

Archive & AtlasEstablished · MMXXIII

Two Women at a Modernist House, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

An interpretation of depth — not a measured reconstruction

Depth is precomputed and interpretive — the scene falls back to the flat image where a browser can't render it.

Two Women at a Modernist House, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1960

AA-2026-BF819D

The Archivist

Ask about this image

Archivist

Step into the scene

Off by default. Turning it on lets the image respond to your cursor with a shallow sense of depth, rebuilt from a depth map computed when the image was catalogued. It is an interpretation for looking, not a measured 3D model — and it falls back to the flat image where the browser can't render it.

On the image

Two women stand in the grounds of a cream-coloured modernist house, the kind of bright, horizontal-windowed structure that represented postwar optimism and efficient living to anyone who could afford it in the 1950s. The woman on the left wears a dark coat with a white collar; the one on the right, in a rust-coloured jacket, holds what appears to be a walking stick or cane. Behind them the house presents itself in the cheerful, unadorned manner of mid-century residential architecture, all clean lines and generous glass, with potted plants arranged along the terrace as though someone had read a magazine about continental living. In the foreground a small pool or pond, painted blue at its edges, sits in the grass like a decorative accent that serves no apparent purpose beyond suggesting leisure. The two women face the camera with the mild satisfaction of people who have just shown someone around their property and are waiting for the appropriate compliment.

From the community

Identifications, corrections, and discussion from readers — reviewed by a librarian before appearing here.

No notes yet — be the first to add what you know about this image.

Visually related — by likeness

Two Women Picnicking on Lawn, Wooded Park, 1950s

1950–1959

Mother and Daughter Outside Stone Cottage, Central Europe, 1950s

1950–1959

Grandfather and Granddaughter Outside Clapboard House, 1958

1958

Family at Kurpark Fountain, Austrian Alpine Town, 1950s

1950–1959

Sunday Afternoon, Somewhere Green, 1950s

1950–1959

Two Women in a Park, 1950s

1950–1959

Backyard Picnic, 1950s

1950–1959

Three Women at a Lake Overlook, Northeastern US, 1950s

1950–1959

Sunday-Best Family Group on Front Lawn, American South, 1950s

1950–1959

Couple with Prize Tomato Plants, 1950s Agricultural Exhibition

1950–1959

Woman in Evening Dress, Suburban Front Lawn, 1950s USA

1950–1959

Couple Posing at Home, 405, American Suburb, 1950s

1950–1959