The Cotton Pickers, Ferguson Unit, Texas Department of Corrections

Artist Danny Lyon (American, born 1942)

Date1968; printed 1987

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 12 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches (31.12 x 46.36 cm)
Sheet: 16 x 20 inches (40.64 x 50.8 cm)
Mat: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 60.96 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2010.46.23

Signedin ink on front

InscribedFront of print in ink, lower margin: "The Cotton picerks, Ferguson Unit, Texas Dept of Corrections, 1968"

MarkingsBleak Beauty stamp in black ink: printed 1987, printer "D.L." ; note in pencil: "One of five printed 1987 D.L."; also in pencil: "W.G. 9033"

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DescriptionImage of African-Americans in white clothes and hats stooped over picking cotton from a field with heavy sacks over their shoulders

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