Toiling Upward - Farmer
by Cora Marshall
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$2,200
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16.000 x 40.000 x 1.500 inches
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Title
Toiling Upward - Farmer
Artist
Cora Marshall
Medium
Mixed Media - Acrylics And Mixed Media
Description
The inspiration for this body of work stems from the artist’s intrigued with jobs held by kin in her family tree, such as, tobacco stemmer, coal miner, fishmonger, grocer, etc. She refers to it as her “post-runaway” series and is curious about how folks earned a living once they were emancipated. While researching historical context of her subjects, she made the fortuitous discovery of Dr. Cater G. Woodson’s and Lorenzo J. Greene’s book, “Negro Wage Earners”, in which they described many of the jobs and conditions under which free African Americans worked post-slavery. The title of the series is from a poem written by one of America’s favorite poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was an abolitionist and author of many poems in which slavery was subject. The poem, “The Ladder of St. Augustine”, reads in part: “The heights by great men reached and kept | Were not attained by sudden flight, | But they, while their companions slept, | Were toiling upward in the night.”
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July 1st, 2018
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