Black and White

James Brooks

About 1960

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This ink drawing on paper represents a a tall bridge seen from a low angle that leaves the bridge dominating the composition. From this perspective, the viewer sees the supports of the bridge and its underside, but not the road above. The bridge is surrounded by roughly represented vegetation, and in the upper left of the composition clouds are represented in the sky.
Black and white press print of an African-American child in a cardboard box. Includes two captions: "Warm Springs, Ga-This "pickininny" was parked in a box while his mother picked cotton on President Roosevelt's farm." [and] "This Pickininny was "parked" in a box while his mother helped gather the first cotton crop grown on President Roosevelt's 2,000 acre Pine Mountain farm near Warm Springs, Ga."
Subject is vase, leaf
woman, fireplace