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Celebrating American art and artists
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Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

Burial Scene, Alabama

1956, printed later

Gordon Parks

Associated Names

Gordon Parks

Artist, American, 1912 - 2006

The image displays a hand and forearm shown from the elbow down. The hand is relaxed, positioned downward, with a medium brown skin tone. The person is wearing a dark-colored garment. On their forearm is an open book, with a red rose on its pages. The background shows a cemetery with gravestones, greenery, and possibly flowers. No other objects are in view.

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Artwork overview

Medium

silver dye bleach print
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection, 1998)
Dimensions

image/sheet: 96.5 × 64.5 cm (38 × 25 3/8 in.)
framed: 100.3 × 68.3 × 4.4 cm (39 1/2 × 26 7/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
Accession Number

2016.117.193

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gordon Parks, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1998; acquired by NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1997

Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 10, 1997 – January 11, 1998

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: #3

Wikidata ID

Q64154495

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