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: Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund
2013.51
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
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 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
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
AAAS 88.19, Contemporary African-American Artists, Michael Chaney, Summer 2021
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022
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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