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John Thomas Biggers

Cotton Pickers

1952

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John Thomas Biggers

Cotton Pickers

1952

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 502 x 300 mm. (19 3/4 x 11 13/16 in.) Plate: 453 x 237 mm. (17 13/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Fund
Object Number 2002.1
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2002; Charles M. Young Fine Prints & Drawings LLC
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America," June 7, 2006 - December 3, 2006.
Susan Dackerman, "A Collector for All of Us." Newsletter of The Print & Drawing Society of The Baltimore Museum of Art (Fall 2004), illus. p. 8.
BMA Today, Summer 2006, p.7, ill.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: ""Cotton Pickers" "proof""; lower right in graphite: "John Biggers 1952"

Artist

John Thomas Biggers

born Gastonia, NC 1924; died Houston, TX 2001

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