Pickets
Item
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Title
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Pickets
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Date
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1946
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Creator
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Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009
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Contributor
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Atlanta Annuals
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Description
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Roy DeCarava was a painter and printmaker before becoming known as a Harlem Renaissance photographer. Pickets depicts two men in winter wear standing in a picket line; they both are wearing sandwich boards. This lithograph is in response to the frustration with wages and working conditions after the end of the wartime no-strike pledge.
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Primary Subject
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1900-1999
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Art
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Activism
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Labor
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Additional Subject
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Protest
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Location
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Atlanta
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Fulton County
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Georgia
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USA
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Type
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Print
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Medium
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Lithograph
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Measurements
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12 in. x 9.5in.
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Format
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JPG
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HBCU Identifier
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1946.011
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HCAC Identifier
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HCAC.CAU.042
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Rights
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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.
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Contributing Institution
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Clark Atlanta University
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Source
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Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
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Collection
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Atlanta Art Annuals
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Language
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English
