The Cotton Bowl, from the series Strange Fruit

© Hank Willis Thomas. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

The Cotton Bowl, from the series Strange Fruit

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The Cotton Bowl, from the series Strange Fruit,

2011

Hank Willis Thomas, born 1976, Plainfield, NJ; active New York, NY
2016-380
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Title
The Cotton Bowl, from the series Strange Fruit
Dates

2011

Maker
Hank Willis Thomas
Medium
Chromogenic print from a digital file
Dimensions
127 × 185.4 cm (50 × 73 in.) frame: 130.8 × 188.9 × 6.3 cm (51 1/2 × 74 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2016-380
Culture
American
Type
chromogenic color prints, color photographs, photographs
Techniques
chromogenic processes
Subject
football fields, cotton (fiber), athletes, men, slaves

The artist; [Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2016.

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