Sentences with phrase «texas sharecropper»

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.

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His paintings in museum collections include Self - Portrait (1935), Sharecropper (1937), and On the Ranch (1941) at the Dallas Museum of Art; Where the Mountain Meets the Plains, at Southern Methodist University; and Oil Field Girls (1940), at the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin.
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