With These Hands
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22 x 29 inches •
mixed charcoal on paper
In “With These Hands” Washington depicts the weathered hands of a sharecropper tending to the land. The hands -- swollen and battered by years of hard work and toil – are intricately rendered to illustrate the physical agony and bodily anguish that was common to sharecropper life.
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