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An oil painting of an African American figure standing on the porch of a building plastered wit…
Marketing
An oil painting of an African American figure standing on the porch of a building plastered wit…
An oil painting of an African American figure standing on the porch of a building plastered with various advertisements with a single stalk of corn growing in the foreground and three opened tin cans.
Marketing, Robert Gwathmey, c. 1943, oil on canvas, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, © 2023 Estate of Robert Gwathmey / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

Marketing

Artist (American, 1903 - 1988)
Datec. 1943
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSight: 20 5/8 × 26 5/16 inches (52.4 × 66.8 cm)
Framed: 28 1/8 × 34 1/4 × 1 1/2 inches (71.4 × 87 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase.
Object number1944.5
On View
On view
Copyright© 2023 Estate of Robert Gwathmey / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextAlthough he passed most of his professional career in New York City, Robert Gwathmey’s best-known images are drawn from the social landscape of the rural South. His paintings from the late 1930s and 1940s illustrate his concerns regarding the plight of poor farmers, particularly African American sharecroppers. In an effort to better understand his subjects, Gwathmey spent time working alongside North Carolina sharecroppers in 1944. Like contemporaries Jacob Lawrence and Ben Shahn, Gwathmey painted in an abstracted figurative style utilizing flat areas of color with minimal shading, as in Marketing.
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