Neshoba County Fair, Near Philadelphia, Mississippi

1964

Danny Lyon

Associated Names
Danny Lyon

Artist, American, born 1942

The image shows a woman facing the camera from the waist up, standing with one hand on her hip and the other hand holding a broom. She has a clear, direct gaze. Her facial features include expressive eyebrows and she has light-colored, curly hair that is partially covered by a hat. She is wearing a horizontally striped, three-quarter sleeve top with bold and alternating dark and light bands. Over this, she appears to be wearing an apron with light vertical stripes. There are two other individuals in the background, not in focus, one to her right wearing a hat and shirt with the collar open, and the other behind her to the left, standing partly covered by a wooden structure. The background seems to be a casual outdoor setting or market space, with blurred figures and structures behind them.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Danny Lyon, Clintondale, NY; Friends of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Simon Lowinsky Gallery, New York), 1994; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • Danny Lyon: Photo-Film, 1959–1990, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 5 – April 4, 1994

2003

  • Both Sides of the Street: Celebrating the Corcoran's Photography Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 12 – August 25, 2003

2006

  • Sight/Insight: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 26 – October 29, 2006

Bibliography

2008

  • Malet, Rosa Maria et al. Modernitat Americana: Obres de la Corcoran Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2008: 106-107, 170.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: NASHOBA [sic] / Danny Lyon; by unknown hand, upper left in black ink circled: CAP 35; upper center in graphite circled: 27; upper center stamped in black ink: SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY PROJECT / [star]; center left: Credit:; center right: Danny Lyon; center: from BLACK STAR; vertical along center right edge: This is the original print / used for reproduction in / MEMORIES OF THE SOUTHERN / CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT; bottom center typed in black ink on white paper: Carnival workers, Nashoba [sic] Cy Fair near Philadelphia, Miss.; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 1994.3.4

Wikidata ID

Q64145959

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