Potato Pickers in the Low Country

1935

Alfred Hutty

Associated Names
Alfred Hutty

Artist, American, 1877 - 1954

The image depicts several women outdoors picking potatoes. The woman in the center stands upright, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a dress with voluminous sleeves. To her left and right, two women are bent over gathering potatoes into baskets. A fourth woman stands in the background with her arms folded. The scene is set in a landscape with trees in the background.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Susan Teller Gallery, New York); Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, CT, 1990; gift to NGA, 2008

Associated Names

Bibliography

2012

  • Arnold, Sara C., and Edith Howle, et al. The Life and Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012, p. 149, no. 146.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Potato Pickers in the Low Country / Ed 75; lower right in graphite: Alfred Hutty; lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: 25 / 4.1 AHE; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 27G

Wikidata ID

Q76455345

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