Friends

Title: Friends
Date: 1942
Creator: Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs, 1917-2010
Contributor: Atlanta Annuals
Description: Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs was an artist, historian, teacher and writer from St. Rose, LA. Friends is a print depiction of an interracial friendship. Two girls, one black and the other white, are sitting on a loveseat in front of a patterned curtain. This was a radical image of race relations created during the height of the Jim Crow era.
Primary Subject: 1900-1999; Race relations; Clothing and dress; Art
Additional Subject: Desegregation; Racial uplift; Fashion
Location: Atlanta; Fulton County; Georgia; USA
Type: Print
Medium: Lithograph
Measurements: 14.875 in. x 9in.
Format: JPG
HBCU Identifier: 1945.011
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.CAU.031
Rights: All rights held by the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Clark Atlanta University, (404) 880-6102 Attn: Museum Director.
Contributing Institution: Clark Atlanta University
Source: Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
Collection: Atlanta Art Annuals
Language: English