Fabric / Lamar Baker. – Vintage Wall Art
![Fabric / Lamar Baker., [19]40. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/37/371efb537896-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Fabric / Lamar Baker.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Fabric / Lamar Baker.
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Titled *Fabric* and dated 1940, this lithograph by Lamar Baker takes its name from cloth, and its record links it to cotton, sharecropping and prisons. Those subjects tie the print to the Southern cotton economy of the period, when tenant farmers and sharecroppers depended on a single crop and debt often bound them to the land. Realist printmakers of the 1930s and 1940s used such scenes to press viewers to confront rural labor and hardship. The print's pencil signature and its stone inscription, LB40, show that it was pulled as an original lithograph rather than a reproduction.
| Created / published | [19]40. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 23.7 x 30 cm. (image), 25.9 x 40.7 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1940. |
| Notes | Signed and titled in pencil. Inscribed on stone lower left: LB40. Copyright by the Estate of Lamar Baker. Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited in: Life of the people: Realist prints and drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948, Library of Congress, 1999. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2002:170.1475 |
| Subjects | Sharecroppers--1940. Cotton--1940. Prisons--1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,706 × 3,787 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220138 |
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