Artist:

Robert McNeill, born Washington, DC 1917-died Washington, DC 2005  Search this

Medium:

gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

sheet: 8 1/8 x 10 in. (20.6 x 25.4 cm.)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

1930s

Exhibition Label:

In 1938, twenty-year-old Robert McNeill was hired to take photographs for The Negro in Virginia, one of more than a dozen black-oriented history projects launched by the New Deal Federal Writer’s Project in the late 1930s. With a three-and-a-half week deadline and a small amount of film, McNeill had to choose his shots carefully. It was a challenging assignment through which he sought to dispel myths about slavery and focus attention on the contemporary lives of black Virginians.

African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, 2012

Topic:

Figure female\elderly  Search this

African American  Search this

Architecture\detail\porch  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase

Copyright:

© 1938, Robert McNeill

Object number:

1993.72.8

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department:

Graphic Arts

Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk792f83c76-262d-46a2-8a9d-5575c0019a26

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_1993.72.8