“Nigger Shack,” Auburn, Alabama

Walter H. Swettman

1933

  • Titles "Nigger Shack," Auburn, Alabama (Descriptive)
  • Artist Walter H. Swettman, American, 1906 - 1994
  • Medium linocut
  • Dimensions sheet: 11 15/16 × 14 1/4 in. (30.3 × 36.2 cm) image: 8 × 11 in. (20.3 × 27.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Patrick Cather, Shoal Creek, Alabama, AFI.130.2016
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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