Sunday Morning
Thrash left his native Griffin, Georgia as a teenager, seeking work and artistic training opportunities in cities across the northern United States. He settled in Philadelphia in his early thirties and often drew on memories of growing up in Georgia for subject matter, as in this work that pictures a woman walking in a rural setting, possibly dressed for church. Thrash is best known for developing carborundum printmaking processes while working at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia, a printmaking workshop established under the Work Projects Administration (WPA), in the late 1930s and early 1940s. But Thrash was skilled in a number of printmaking techniques, and Sunday Morning demonstrates his command of drypoint etching, in which layers of black lines are applied to model volume and form.
Artwork Details
- Title: Sunday Morning
- Artist: Dox Thrash (American, Griffin, Georgia 1893–1965 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Publisher: WPA
- Date: ca. 1939
- Medium: Drypoint
- Dimensions: sheet: 12 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (32 x 27 cm)
plate: 8 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (22.5 x 20 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of the Work Projects Administration, Pennsylvania, 1943
- Object Number: 43.46.79
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Dox Thrash
ca. 1936–41
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ca. 1940–50
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ca. 1938–42
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