Washington (southwest section), D.C. Negro children in the front door of their home

November 1942, printed later

Gordon Parks

Associated Names
Gordon Parks

Artist, American, 1912 - 2006

This grayscale photograph shows five children positioned around a wooden door. Four children are inside, peering out from the torn screen door, and one child is sitting outside the door, on the ground to the left. The children have dark skin and dark hair, with different hairstyles and clothing. The seated child outside has short hair and is wearing a jacket over shorts, with what appears to be a white bandage on one knee. The shortest child inside the door has curly hair put up in a braid and appears to be wearing a light jacket over a dress or skirt. The next tallest child peeking out from inside has short hair and wears a dark jacket with a large collar and appears to have a cut or injury near one of their eyebrows. The child behind them is obscured by the other two children, so we only see their face, and they have even shorter hair. The tallest child has longer hair in a braided updo and wears a long, high-necked garment. The house has pale wooden siding, and a shuttered window is barely visible to the left.
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Artwork overview


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 Library of Congress, bottom left typed on adhesive label: Reproduced from the / Collections of the / LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; bottom left in graphite: LC-USW311062-C

Wikidata ID

Q64154350

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