Dance at the Grange Hall

A 1960s black and white flash photograph inside a wooden community hall during a dance, couples blurred in motion, a small band on a low stage in sharp focus, strings of lights, film grain. — Dance at the Grange Hall

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Title: Dance at the Grange Hall
Subject: Dances; Harlow
Description: Calder's flash caught the hall mid-turn: the dancers blurred, the band sharp, and in the corner an old farmer asleep on the coats.
Creator: Ruth Calder
Date: 1961
Rights: Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).
Type: Photograph
Identifier: 2015.4.11
Extent: 27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)
Provenance: Gift of the Calder estate, 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print

Ruth Calder 1925–2011

Dance at the Grange Hall, 1961

Medium: Gelatin silver print

Extent: 27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)

Provenance: Gift of the Calder estate, 2015

Identifier: 2015.4.11

Calder's flash caught the hall mid-turn: the dancers blurred, the band sharp, and in the corner an old farmer asleep on the coats.

Rights & reuse

Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

Cite this

Ruth Calder. “Dance at the Grange Hall.” 1961. Wrenfield Museum of Art. https://01hy7jb6pdd1k4jjjn56z4587d.app-platform-1.refbytes.com/items/show/237 (accessed October 27, 2026).

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