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Basket Method

c. 1940s

Merritt Mauzey

Associated Names

Merritt Mauzey

Artist, American, 1898 - 1973

The image shows two adults and a child in a cotton field. The two adults have baskets on their heads, facing the front, with visible facial features and obscured hair. They wear simple fieldwork attire. The child stands behind them, wearing a short-sleeved dress. One adult holds a basket-like object at their side. The background includes a countryside with open cotton fields, a distant house, and birds flying in the sky.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

image: 33.7 × 26.7 cm (13 1/4 × 10 1/2 in.)
sheet: 50.8 × 33 cm (20 × 13 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.3385
Catalogue Raisonné

Tracy 1972, no. 10

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1972

Tracy, Warren. The Catalog of Merritt Mauzey Collection in the Library of the University of Southern Mississippi. Hattiesburg: University of Southern Mississippi, 1972, p. 19, no. 10.

Inscriptions

Inscribed: In pencil: lower right, Merritt Mauzey

Wikidata ID

Q76456609

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