Bill Pollock (seated) in his Wired Music System Studio, Ridge Recreational Hall, 1945
Ed Westcott
American, 1922 - 2019
Ed Westcott was the official US Army photographer of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee site for the Manhattan Project. Westcott went to work for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1941. The following year he became the official government photographer of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in Oak Ridge. Among the first in the new secret city, Ed shot thousands of photos documenting the construction and operations, as well as the lives and times of Oak Ridgers from the beginning.
Westcott shot hundreds of exposures and processed over 5,000 prints before the war even ended. The National Archives is the repository for all of Westcott's negatives and offers an extensive collection of his photos from the period.
After the war, Westcott stayed in Oak Ridge as an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), until he was transferred to AEC headquarters in 1966. Westcott retired in 1977. He passed away on March 29, 2019 at the age of 97.
United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, Photography Archives
archival inkjet print
Cage
Robert Rauschenberg
American, 1925 - 2008
Ewing Gallery purchase
1983
silkscreen with silk collage, ruler, and hand-coloring
41.5 x 29.5 inches
116/125
print
Untitled
Richard Aldrich
American, b. 1975
Gift of UT School of Art
archival inkjet print
19 x 13 inches
print
Musicians
Joseph Delaney
American, 1904 - 1991
Bequest of the artist
pen on paper
drawing
Musicians
Joseph Delaney
American, 1904 - 1991
Bequest of the artist
pen on paper
drawing
Johnny Cash's Childhood Home, Dyess, AR
Denny Renshaw
Gift of the Artist
photograph