Workers with Cotton Wagon, South Carolina

1929–1930

Doris Ulmann

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Doris Ulmann

Artist, American, 1882 - 1934

The image shows a man sitting on the edge of a container filled with cotton. He has one leg bent and resting on the container while the other leg hangs down. The man wears a headwrap, a shirt with rolled-up sleeves, and an apron-like garment. In the background, there is a wooden building, with another person faintly visible through a window. An animal, likely a mule, is partially visible in the lower left corner.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Estate of Doris Ulmann, New York; Collection of John Jacob Niles (1892–1980), Lexington, KY; Private collection; (Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York), 1985; NGA purchase, 2023.

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Inscriptions

on verso, in unknown hand, lower left corner in graphite: 302057.22

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