Sentences with phrase «sharecroppers wife»
Sharecroppers Wife, 1937 (a companion piece to Bywaters» Sharecropper held by the Dallas Museum of Art) is an unsentimental and barefaced painting of a woman who has clearly lived a harsh existence.
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And so the tale of a Green Knight with his chopped - off head still holding a knight of the Round Table to promises made is no less true than the tale of a man crammed with secrets who spontaneously combusts and leaves behind only a black, tallowy mark on the floorboards, and his story in turn is no less true than the tale of a Texas sharecropper's wife who has had a miscarriage only ten days before but just this morning was walking behind the mule and guiding the jerking plow.
But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?
The legendary African American actress, who earned a Tony last year for «A Trip to Bountiful» and is best known for her Emmy Award - winning turn in the landmark 1974 TV movie «The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,» received a lead actress nomination for «Sounder» as the resilient Rebecca Morgan, the wife of a sharecropper in Louisiana, circa early 1930s, who tries to keep her family together despite tremendous odds.
Arthur Rothstein (American, 1915 - 1985) Sharecropper's Wife and Child, Arkansas, 1935, printed later.
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