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The Cotton Pickers, 1864 by Winslow Homer

The Cotton Pickers, 1876 is an oil painting by Winslow Homer of two young African-American women in a cotton field.

Stately, silent and with barely a flicker of sadness on their faces, the two black women in the painting are unmistakable in their disillusionment: they picked cotton before the war and they are still picking cotton afterward.[1]

It is oil on canvas, 24 1/16 x 38 1/8 in. (61.12 x 96.84 cm).[2]

The painting is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Winslow Homer". The New York Times. 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
  2. ^ "Winslow Homer. The Cotton Pickers". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
  3. ^ Simpson, Marc. Winslow Homer, Paintings of the Civil War. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Bedford Arts, Publishers. p. 58. ISBN 0884010600. Retrieved 2013-02-15.