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In the Roosevelt Time: Penned In
2003
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The Great Depression revealed the disparity between America's cherished ideals of equality and economic opportunity for all, and the harsh realities of racial and class differences. African Americans were affected most severly and were generally the last to benefit from economic prosperity, often first and farthest to fall with its decline. Thornton Dial's drawing explicitly references the difficulties Black Americans endured during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His female figure is "penned in" by her subsistence work as a sharecropper, and also by her limited options in life.
- Artist
- Thornton Dial
- Title
- In the Roosevelt Time: Penned In
- Date
- 2003
- Object Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pencil, acrylic, and watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 44 x 30 in. (111.8 x 76.2 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, American Art Trust Fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection
- Accession Number
- 2017.1.12