Smithsonian American Art Museum
Employment of Negroes in Agriculture
Earle Richardson, born New York City 1912-died New York City 1935 · 1934
A group of Black farmers works barefoot in a Southern cotton field. The monumental figures stand with a quiet pride that transcends their identity as manual laborers. Their forms take up the foreground, confronting the viewers as equals.
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