Palm trees / by Walter Christmas, Art Workshop; [photograph by] James Latimer Allen. – Vintage Photo Print
![Palm trees / by Walter Christmas, Art Workshop; [photograph by] James Latimer Allen., 1933 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/47/47773c73c0d6-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 historic photograph of Palm trees / by Walter Christmas, Art Workshop; [photograph by] James Latimer Allen.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Palm trees / by Walter Christmas, Art Workshop; [photograph by] James Latimer Allen.
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Walter Christmas, a child, made this linocut of palm trees beside a body of water, and the picture survives as a 1933 photographic reproduction of that work. It came out of the Harlem Art Workshop, a program for young people in New York that encouraged printmaking and other visual arts. The Harmon Foundation, which promoted African American artists in the 1920s and 1930s, kept records of such works, and the reproduction preserves a child's simple, bold handling of a tropical seaside scene at a time when prints like this were often shown to wide audiences.
| Created / published | 1933 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1930-1940.Linocuts Reproductions 1930-1940.Seaside prints 1930-1940.Children's art Reproductions 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Title from item. No. 15. Reproduction of a child's artwork from Harlem Art Workshop. From Harmon Foundation, Inc. records. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1971:154 |
| Subjects | Palms--1930-1940. Bodies of water--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,279 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-208853 |
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