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Black and white print featuring a single cotton plant with leaves and bolls growing through a tangled heap of thick, heavy chains in the foreground. The background shows a barren, grassy landscape beneath a dark, dramatically clouded sky.
The Slave Plant
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

The Slave Plant

Artist Lamar Baker (American, 1908 - 1994)
Date1939
MediumLithograph
Dimensionssheet: 11 1/2 x 16 in. (29.2 x 40.6 cm)
image: 8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Hiram and Avonell Williams, by exchange with the Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia, in memory of Lamar Baker
Object number1997.31.19
Collections
Visual DescriptionBlack and white print featuring a single cotton plant with leaves and bolls growing through a tangled heap of thick, heavy chains in the foreground. The background shows a barren, grassy landscape beneath a dark, dramatically clouded sky.
Black and white print showing a large head with closed eyes angled downward. A wreath of cotton bolls floats above. A woven texture overlays the scene. A small figure works in a field in the lower left.
Cotton Field Saint
Lamar Baker
1942
Pewee Flycatcher
Pewee Flycatcher
John James Audubon
1839-1844
Black and white print of an industrial machine wheel wrapped in a chain of gripping human hands. Large hands pick cotton in the upper left over a rural landscape with a house and small figures working in a field.
Field Hands
Lamar Baker
1940
Black and white print of an abandoned ruin. A tall smokestack and several broken columns stand behind a raised foundation with a large, dark hole. Tall, overgrown grasses surround the crumbling structures beneath a heavily shaded, dark sky.
Sunday Afternoon in New Jersey
Lamar Baker
1936
Black and white print portrait of a man wearing glasses, a striped shirt, and a dark jacket, looking left. He is positioned in the lower right corner, surrounded by oversized, detailed lobed leaves, spiky flower buds, and tall grass.
Self Portrait with Cotton Plant
Lamar Baker
1940
Black and white print of a clock face and human profile. A chain links a nose ring on the profile to the clock hands. Below are a railroad rail, a hanging lantern, a small house on stilts, and a train.
Commuter's Fantasy, from the series Fantasies
Lamar Baker
1936
Black and white profile portrait of a man with closed eyes, facing left. Large lobed leaves and spiky buds frame the upper left. A metal chain winds across the top right and down into the bottom left.
Negro Head
Lamar Baker
1940
Black and white print of a columned house resting on a bright cloud above a cotton field. A large insect clings to the cloud. In the foreground, a dark trench is filled with partially buried human heads and bodies.
Plantation System
Lamar Baker
1941
Black and white print showing an industrial textile machine and a traditional spinning wheel. A woman and child stand nearby. A giant spider web spans the dark sky above, catching a house, a factory, and three falling human figures.
Walk Into My Parlor
Lamar Baker
1940
Black and white print of a harbor scene. Two empty rowboats float in the foreground. Behind them is a white boat with two small figures, docked near industrial waterfront structures, cranes, and buildings set against a dark, cloudy sky.
Elise
Lamar Baker
1937
Black and white print of a snake coiled through a knight's helmet. A rolled scroll with a seal rests on stacked books below, alongside a sword, a curved strap, and a small hanging strip with an insect.
Mars, from the series Fantasies
Lamar Baker
c. 1938 - 1940
Black and white print featuring a dark, carved wooden female figure with a chained ankle. Behind her are a headless tuxedo jacket, a draped white cloth, a large high-heeled shoe, and two stylized masks against a dark background.
African Fantasy, from the series Fantasies
Lamar Baker
1936

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