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künstler: Ethel Magafan

titel: Cotton Pickers

jahr: 1940

adresse: Post Office, 402 Merriman Avenue East, Wynne, Arkansas, USA

+: Oil on canvas, 12 ft. x 4 ft. 6 in. Ethel Magafan was commissioned for $560 to create a mural for Wynne, Arkansas as a result of an Honorable Mention in a Section of Fine Arts competition. She visited town and composed numerous sketches of the people as they worked in the cotton fields. Magafan installed the mural with the help of her twin sister Jenne. The color sketch for the composition was exhibited at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and the black and white cartoon was displayed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art in 1988.