The watercolor depicts the rolling hills and red clay soil of the countryside near Griffin, Georgia, the hometown of Dox Thrash. Though the artist left Griffin before the age of 15 to settle in Chicago and later in Philadelphia, his imagery frequently recalled the rural South. Below a gray sky, the land opens up in bright reds, yellows, and greens. Thrash fondly remembers the fences and dirt roads, a birdhouse, and the way people gathered near a front porch to pass the time of day. A community of civic-minded Baltimoreans, listed in the drawing’s credit line below, helped the Museum to acquire this watercolor in 1942.