Red River Carts

Nick Eggenhofer

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This painting represents a portrait of a woman. She wears a flower skirt and is nude from the waist up. She sits at the left of the composition, facing the right. Her hands are crossed over her knees. Her eyes are slightly cast down and look at a point within the composition.
Black and white press print of an African American woman lying in the grass struggling against four white policemen. The officer in the center holds a billy club. Includes caption "WOMAN SCUFFLES WITH SHERIFF - A Negro woman fights back as / Sheriff Jim Clark (hatless), of Dallas County, Ala. tried to wrestle his / billy club from her grip in a melee on the ground outside the Selma court- / house during the civil rights drive to register Negro voters. The woman, / Annie Lee Cooper, a Selma motel clerk, was subdued by Clark and his / deputies and arrested on charges of assaulting the sheriff. --AP Wirephoto."
Hand-carved wooden frame in the so-called "whirlwind" pattern. According to Virginia Couse Leavitt, the artist's granddaughter, his earliest frame design "incorporates a scroll (whirlwind) at the center of each side, from which a barbed feather motif extends to the corners."
Open air market -- in foreground are three women seated behind tall baskets of vegetables, an older man in uniform is talking to them