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[Sketch of Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, facing right, playing guitar] / Willa Gray Martin. – Historic Photograph Print

[Sketch of Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, facing right, playing guitar] / Willa Gray Martin. — historic photograph
[Sketch of Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, facing right, playing guitar] / Willa Gray Martin.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Step back in time with [Sketch of Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, facing right, playing guitar] / Willa Gray Martin., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Sketch of Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, facing right, playing guitar] / Willa Gray Martin.

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Shown from the waist up and turned to the right, Woody Guthrie is caught mid-performance, his hands on a guitar. The drawing was made by Willa Gray Martin and dated 1943, a year when Guthrie was well known for songs about the Dust Bowl, migrant laborers, and the hard years of the Depression. Born in Oklahoma in 1912, he had traveled widely and written songs from the road, and his plain, direct style made him a central figure in American folk music. Portraits like this one record how he was seen by artists of his time, as a working musician with a guitar and a message.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1943
SubjectsGuthrie, Woody,--1912-1967--Performances.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,280 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-196692

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