Department Store, Mobile, Alabama

1956, printed later

Gordon Parks

Associated Names
Gordon Parks

Artist, American, 1912 - 2006

The photograph shows two people standing on a sidewalk. One of them is an adult woman and the other is a young girl. They both have dark skin and black hair, and they are dressed in formal attire. The woman is facing the right, and we see her in profile. She has short, dark, wavy hair and is wearing a long white dress with short sleeves and white shoes with low heels, and she is holding a white purse. She has a round white earring in her ear, and she looks upward with her eyebrows raised. The girl has her hair tied back with a white bow, and she is wearing a white dress with sheer puffed sleeves, a ruffled skirt, white socks, and black shoes. Her body is turned to us, but she looks off to the right. The two people are outside the entrance to a building on the left of the photo. Above an open door is a neon sign that reads "COLORED ENTRANCE" which hangs above the two people. The woman has her back to the door. On the right is a street lined with other gray buildings with neon signs and a phone booth. A black car is driving by, and a few other people are visible in the background.
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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

Bibliography

2009

  • Walker, Jerald. "My Fear of the South; Where the past still lives."_Oxford American_64 (2009):30-31.

Inscriptions

on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner in graphite: CGA#128 [exhibition number for Half Past Autumn]

Wikidata ID

Q64154498

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