ArtistSharon Wolpoff
Landlords
Date2006
MediumMonoprint
DimensionsImage Size: 6 × 6 1/2 in. (15.2 × 16.5 cm)
Paper Size: 11 1/2 × 8 in. (29.2 × 20.3 cm)
Framed Size: 12 × 12 1/2 in. (30.5 × 31.8 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2017.046.3
ClassificationsPrints
Locations
- DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (200 I Street SE)
Description“Landlords” is one of three monoprints from a series about the meeting at which Wolpoff sold the property that was the foundation of her (late) Father’s business. His family had a hardware store on Georgia Avenue at Sheridan Street, NW, and in the early 1950s he opened a marine supply business in downtown Silver Spring as an offshoot of that hardware store. He sold the boat business in 1976 but kept the building, moving upstairs into a small office from which he managed and developed property. His brother, Wolpoff’s uncle, started his law practice out of one of those small offices as well. Both men became enormously successful, providing the groundwork for other family members and future generations to build upon what Wolpoff’s Dad had begun. The sale of the building in 2006 marked the end of an era and the start of yet another.
