Farm Boy

Media: ClarkAtlanta/HCAC.CAU.004 NF.jpg; ClarkAtlanta/HCAC.CAU.004 WF.jpg

Title: Farm Boy
Date: 1941
Creator: Charles Henry Alston, 1907-1977 See all items with this value
Contributor: Atlanta Annuals
Description: Charles Henry Alston was a Harlem Renaissance painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist, and teacher. Farm Boy is a portrait of a young Black boy holding a hat and tool on a farm. Alston photographed Black Southern life in North Carolina when he visited rural and farm sites with a Farm Security Administration inspector.
Primary Subject: 1900-1999 See all items with this value; Art See all items with this value; Agriculture See all items with this value; Rural Life See all items with this value
Additional Subject: American South; Labor; Black Art
Location: Atlanta; Fulton County; Georgia; USA
Type: Painting
Medium: Gouache on paper
Measurements: 28.625 x 34 in.
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: 1942.004
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.CAU.004
Rights: All rights held by the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Clark Atlanta University, (404) 880-6102 Attn: Museum Director.
Contributing Institution: Clark Atlanta University
Source: Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
Collection: Atlanta Art Annuals See all items with this value
Language: English
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Item sets: Art; Portraits and Busts in the Atlanta University Annuals; Clark Atlanta University Collections; The Black Modernist Canon in the Atlanta University Annuals