Earle Wilton Richardson

Biography

Earle Wilton Richardson, (1912–1935) was an African-American artist best known for a 1934 oil painting titled Employment of Negroes in Agriculture, created for the Public Works of Art Project. The iconic picture (size 48 × 32 inches) depicts two male and two female Black cotton workers, one of them a child, in an unidentified Southern state loading cotton into bales. Like many other American works of art at the time, the painting was commissioned and financed under the New Deal.

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