Sentences with phrase «cotton sharecropper»

Walker Evans, Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama, 1936; gelatin silver print; private collection; © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Bluegrass music is at the heart of the film, as it was of «Bonnie and Clyde,» and there are images of chain gangs, sharecropper cottages, cotton fields, populist politicians, river baptisms, hobos on freight trains, patent medicines, 25 - watt radio stations and Klan rallies.

The acquisitions include: Benny Andrews (1930 2006), Mississippi River Bank (Trail of Tears Series), 2005; McArthur Binion (b. 1946), DNA: Black Painting: IV, 2015; Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972), Sharecropper, 2015; Titus Kaphar (b. 1976), Darker Than Cotton, 2018; Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) Condition Report, 2000; Deborah Luster (b. 1951), six gelatin silver prints from the series One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, 1999 2001; Toyin Ojih Odutola (b. 1985), The Engagement, 2015; Noah Saterstrom (b. 1974), Road to Shubuta, 2016; and Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976), Flying Geese, 2012.

As if to challenge stereotypes, Flemister makes no reference to the cotton fields and sharecroppers» shacks that populated the Southern landscape.

BORN CIRCA 1853 - 55 on a cotton plantation in Benton, Ala., Traylor worked as a sharecropper after Emancipation.

(1930 - 2006) As a boy in rural Georgia, Benny Andrews helped his sharecropper family in the cotton fields.

It is also perfectly choreographed so that the poor black cotton pickers of Thomas Hart Benton appear in direct contrast to Grant Wood's cheerful white sharecroppers, say, and the gothic windows in Paul Sample's Church Supper speak straight to the window in Wood's American Gothic.