Cotton Picking in Georgia (Georgia Cotton Crop)
Dox Thrash, American, 1893 - 1965
about 1944-1945
Carborundum mezzotint on laid [Vidalon] paper
unnumbered from an edition of 9
Plate: 8 1/2 × 10 in. (21.6 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 22 1/2 in. (28.6 × 57.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund
2013.51
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
20th century
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Dox Thrash; titled, in graphite, lower left margin: Cotton picking in Georgia; numbered, in graphite, on reverse: L0822D Watermark: Vidalon
Course History
ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States. Mary Coffey, Winter 2015
ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Winter 2015
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
Provenance
Bonhams, London, June 2011; sold to a private collector; consigned to Dolan/Maxwell, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; sold to present collection, 2013.
Catalogue Raisonne
John Ittmann, Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002), 90–129 (this print, no. 114)
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