Cabin Days
Dox Thrash, American, 1893 - 1965
Geography:
Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Date:
c. 1938-1939Medium:
Carborundum mezzotintDimensions:
Plate: 10 x 9 1/8 inches (25.4 x 23.2 cm) Sheet: 11 5/8 x 10 3/4 inches (29.5 x 27.3 cm)Copyright:
Research inconclusive. Copyright may apply.Curatorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
1941-53-374Credit Line:
Purchased with the Thomas Skelton Harrison Fund, 1941
Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Date:
c. 1938-1939Medium:
Carborundum mezzotintDimensions:
Plate: 10 x 9 1/8 inches (25.4 x 23.2 cm) Sheet: 11 5/8 x 10 3/4 inches (29.5 x 27.3 cm)Copyright:
Research inconclusive. Copyright may apply.Curatorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1941-53-374Credit Line:
Purchased with the Thomas Skelton Harrison Fund, 1941
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african american [x] african american art [x] african american artist [x] black art [x] cabin [x] memory [x] mezzotint [x] print [x] rural scene [x]Dox Thrash was born in 1893 in a small cabin on the outskirts of Griffin, Georgia. Having left home as a teenager, he later depicted many nostalgic scenes of his own childhood in his prints. In many he uses an innovative printmaking process that he himself helped develop in late 1937. Although the new method was named after Carborundum, the commercial abrasive used in the process, for a brief period Thrash called it the "Opheliagraph" in honor of his mother, who died in 1936.
