Sweet Home Alabama

James "Spider" Martin

Negative 1965; printed 2002

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Female Half Figure, Lucille Douglass, charcoal
Arbitration, William Gropper, color lithograph
Press print with caption "(MRX-8) MONTGOMERY, ALA., MAR. 24-NURSING TIRED AND SORE FEET - Rodney Shaw, Washington, D.C. foreground, bathes his tired and sore feet in a roadside stream while other civil rights marchers rest their feet during a stop today in their march on the Alabama state capitol at Montgomery. The march approached the city limits this afternoon where the demonstrators will make camp before converging on the capitol tomorrow. (APWirephoto) (See AP Wire Story) (wfa 4 1345 stf) 1965"
This painting represents stand of narrow-shafted trees, scattered throughout the foreground and shown receding off to the right of the middle ground. A stream is also shown in the middle ground, running over a rocky outcropping. The background represents additional trees in green and yellow, and possibly a mountain ridge extending above the treetops. The main colors of the painting are yellow, orange, and green.