[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Client whose property has been optioned by the government, Brown County, Indiana.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated March, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2021
58in x 39in
Oil on Panel
Private Collection
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: The Blizzard family, Kempton, West Virginia.” Original Nitrate Negative by John Vachon dated May, 1939, courtesy of the Library of Congress]
2020
80in x 44in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Girl carrying boxes of cranberries to loading station, Burlington County, New Jersey.” Original Nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated October 1938, courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2022
Oil on Canvas, Framed
60x40in
Private Collection
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Agricultural laborer who lives at "Eighty Acres," Glassboro, New Jersey.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated October, 1938. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.”]
2020
56.5in x 42
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Unknown.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Unknown Photographer dated between 1935 and 1942. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2021
60in x 40 in
Oil on Panel
Private Collection
(about this series)
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Sharecropper's wife and children, Arkansas.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated August, 1935. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
21.5in x 43in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Front of a typical house offering furnished rooms for rent, District of Columbia.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated July, 1935. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
20in x 16in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
“I ain’t never seen a good photograph of a negro. Not in all my years. And one thing I know for sure is, I ain’t fitna end up like those negroes, ‘specially not before I even get to seventh grade and find out if Bobby Hall like-likes me.“
-Excerpt from "The Girl Speaks" by Candace G. Wiley
2022
Oil on Canvas, Framed
40x60in
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Young cotton picker, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Schools for colored children do not open until January 1st so as not to interfere with cotton picking” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn dated October, 1935. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
42in x 56.5in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
[Archive Text: “[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Arkansas tenant farmer.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn dated October, 1935. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2021
Oil on Panel
40x60in
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Negro boy selling pecans by road, near Alma, Georgia.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated January, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
56.5in x 42in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Anton Weber, resettled farmer, Tompkins County, New York.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated September, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
56.5in x 42in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Amwell Road, Franklin Township, Bound Brook, New Jersey. A resident”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated February, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
25.5 x 59.5
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Westmoreland Homesteads, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Home schooling”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated February, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
13in x 17in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Floyd Burroughs, Jr., and Othel Lee Burroughs, called Squeakie. Son of an Alabama cotton sharecropper”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Walker Evans dated Summer, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
17in x 13in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Interior of railroad station, Hagerstown, Maryland”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated October, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
17in x 13in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Young Indian mother and baby, blueberry camp, near Little Fork, Minnesota”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee dated August, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
17in x 13in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Fellows and Son casket manufacturers. Employs from 200 to 350 people, Amoskeag, New Hampshire”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated September, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
17in x 13in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: "Settin' around." Mining town, Davey, West Virginia”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott dated September, 1938. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
13in x 17in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Fair scene, Albany, Vermont”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated September, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
17in x 13in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Employment agency on Sixth Avenue, New York, New York”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated December, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
17in x 13in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: "Frenchy" caretaker of the old lumber camp, Gemmel, Minnesota”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee dated August, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
13in x 17in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Mountain farmhouse in Appalachian Mountains”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated March, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
13in x 17in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Vermont farmer”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated May, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
13in x 17in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Blind street musician, West Memphis, Arkansas”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn dated October, 1935. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
56.5in x 42in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Transients clearing land. Prince George's County, Maryland.” Original Nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated November, 1935, courtesy of the Library of Congress]
2020
16.5in x 12.5in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Pouring a test mold while blast furnace is being tapped, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.” Original Nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated July, 1938, courtesy of the Library of Congress]
2020
14in x 11in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Family on relief, Lancaster, Ohio.” Original Nitrate negative by Ben Shahn dated August, 1938, courtesy of the Library of Congress]
2020
12.5in x 16.5in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farmer, Irwinville Farms, Georgia.” Original Nitrate negative by John Vachon dated May, 1938, courtesy of the Library of Congress]
2020
12.5in x 16.5in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Structures housing poor whites and blacks, Hamilton County, Ohio.” Original Nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated December, 1935, courtesy of the Library of Congress]
2019
16.5in x 12.5in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Girl carrying boxes of cranberries to loading station, Burlington County, New Jersey.” Original Nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated October 1938, courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
16.5in x 12.5in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Mr. Tronson, farmer near Wheelock, North Dakota.” Original Nitrate negative by Russell Lee dated August, 1937, courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
12in x 16in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Client whose property has been optioned by the government, Brown County, Indiana.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated March, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2021
58in x 39in
Oil on Panel
Private Collection
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: The Blizzard family, Kempton, West Virginia.” Original Nitrate Negative by John Vachon dated May, 1939, courtesy of the Library of Congress]
2020
80in x 44in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Girl carrying boxes of cranberries to loading station, Burlington County, New Jersey.” Original Nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated October 1938, courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2022
Oil on Canvas, Framed
60x40in
Private Collection
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Agricultural laborer who lives at "Eighty Acres," Glassboro, New Jersey.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated October, 1938. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.”]
2020
56.5in x 42
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Unknown.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Unknown Photographer dated between 1935 and 1942. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2021
60in x 40 in
Oil on Panel
Private Collection
(about this series)
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Sharecropper's wife and children, Arkansas.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated August, 1935. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
21.5in x 43in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Front of a typical house offering furnished rooms for rent, District of Columbia.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated July, 1935. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
20in x 16in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
“I ain’t never seen a good photograph of a negro. Not in all my years. And one thing I know for sure is, I ain’t fitna end up like those negroes, ‘specially not before I even get to seventh grade and find out if Bobby Hall like-likes me.“
-Excerpt from "The Girl Speaks" by Candace G. Wiley
2022
Oil on Canvas, Framed
40x60in
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Young cotton picker, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Schools for colored children do not open until January 1st so as not to interfere with cotton picking” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn dated October, 1935. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
42in x 56.5in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
[Archive Text: “[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Arkansas tenant farmer.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn dated October, 1935. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2021
Oil on Panel
40x60in
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Negro boy selling pecans by road, near Alma, Georgia.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated January, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
56.5in x 42in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Anton Weber, resettled farmer, Tompkins County, New York.” Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated September, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
56.5in x 42in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Amwell Road, Franklin Township, Bound Brook, New Jersey. A resident”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated February, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
25.5 x 59.5
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Westmoreland Homesteads, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Home schooling”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated February, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
13in x 17in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Floyd Burroughs, Jr., and Othel Lee Burroughs, called Squeakie. Son of an Alabama cotton sharecropper”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Walker Evans dated Summer, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
17in x 13in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Interior of railroad station, Hagerstown, Maryland”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated October, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
17in x 13in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Young Indian mother and baby, blueberry camp, near Little Fork, Minnesota”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee dated August, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
17in x 13in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Fellows and Son casket manufacturers. Employs from 200 to 350 people, Amoskeag, New Hampshire”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated September, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
17in x 13in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: "Settin' around." Mining town, Davey, West Virginia”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott dated September, 1938. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
13in x 17in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Fair scene, Albany, Vermont”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated September, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
17in x 13in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Employment agency on Sixth Avenue, New York, New York”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated December, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
17in x 13in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: "Frenchy" caretaker of the old lumber camp, Gemmel, Minnesota”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee dated August, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
13in x 17in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Mountain farmhouse in Appalachian Mountains”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated March, 1936. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
13in x 17in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Vermont farmer”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated May, 1937. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
13in x 17in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Blind street musician, West Memphis, Arkansas”. Original 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn dated October, 1935. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
56.5in x 42in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Transients clearing land. Prince George's County, Maryland.” Original Nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated November, 1935, courtesy of the Library of Congress]
2020
16.5in x 12.5in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Pouring a test mold while blast furnace is being tapped, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.” Original Nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated July, 1938, courtesy of the Library of Congress]
2020
14in x 11in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Family on relief, Lancaster, Ohio.” Original Nitrate negative by Ben Shahn dated August, 1938, courtesy of the Library of Congress]
2020
12.5in x 16.5in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
[Archive Text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farmer, Irwinville Farms, Georgia.” Original Nitrate negative by John Vachon dated May, 1938, courtesy of the Library of Congress]
2020
12.5in x 16.5in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Structures housing poor whites and blacks, Hamilton County, Ohio.” Original Nitrate negative by Carl Mydans dated December, 1935, courtesy of the Library of Congress]
2019
16.5in x 12.5in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Girl carrying boxes of cranberries to loading station, Burlington County, New Jersey.” Original Nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein dated October 1938, courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
16.5in x 12.5in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection
[Archive text: “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Mr. Tronson, farmer near Wheelock, North Dakota.” Original Nitrate negative by Russell Lee dated August, 1937, courtesy of the Library of Congress.]
2020
12in x 16in
Charcoal, Graphite & Ink on Paper
Private Collection