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File Name	shades_twg_0001.jpg
Creator	Wood, Thomas Waterman (1823-1903)
Title	A Southern Cornfield, Nashville, Tennessee
Date	1861
Genre	Paintings
Material/Technique	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	28 x 40 inches
Description	This painting depicts eight African Americans of varying ages working in a field of corn, probably under a hot June sun. The moment shown appears to be a break for water.
Historical note	Thomas Waterman Wood, a native of Vermont, trained as an artist in Boston and New York and traveled in Europe before settling in Nashville in 1859. He was drawn to the cosmopolitan southern city by the promise of portrait commissions, but he undertook this genre painting, for which he hired models, on his own. He left Nashville in 1862 for Louisville, Kentucky. What he had seen of African American life must have fascinated him, for he soon undertook a series of paintings that chronicled the transition from slavery to citizenship.
Subject	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
Theme	Walking a Fine Line
Story	Thomas Waterman Wood
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Nashville
Time period	1860-1869
Contributing Institution	Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, VT
Rights	Images reproduced on this website are intended for individual, educational use only. For research inquiries about specific objects or requests for high resolution images, contact the Wood Art Gallery.
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,51
Archival file	shades11/shades_twg_0001.jpg