Negro Sharecropper Girl, Texas
- Artist
- Russell Lee, American, 1903–1986
- Date
- 1939
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- depicts
- Marshall, Texas, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 10 3/16 x 13 1/8 in. (25.9 x 33.3 cm)
sheet: 11 3/16 x 14 1/8 in. (28.4 x 35.9 cm) - Credit Line
- Museum Shop Fund
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- Object Number
- 6:1987
NOTES
A young girl leans out through a tattered screen—her white dress in stark contrast to the dark void of the window. This photograph belongs to a group that tracks a day in the life of an African American sharecropping family taken by photographer Russell Lee. From 1935 to 1944, the Farm Security Administration sponsored a large number of photographers, like Lee, with the goal of documenting rural living conditions throughout America. The anxious gaze of the girl and the disrepair of her family’s home reveal the harsh conditions of life in Northeastern Texas.
Provenance
- 1987
Nancy Medwell, Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
1987 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Nancy Medwell, Fine Arts [1]
Notes:
[1] Per invoice dated February 27, 1987 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Meeting of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, February 16, 1987.
Nancy Medwell, Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
1987 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Nancy Medwell, Fine Arts [1]
Notes:
[1] Per invoice dated February 27, 1987 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Meeting of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, February 16, 1987.