Thursday, 4/26/2018, 6 – 7:30 p.m. PDT

This event is made possible by the Allan and Mary Kollar Endowed Chair in American Art History.

NOTE: The lecture is free and open to the public, but reservations are recommended.

Description
In the summer of 1942, Gordon Parks, then new to the photographic division of the Farm Security Administration, produced a remarkable series of images of federal employee Ella Watson. One of those pictures, widely taken as a riff on Grant Wood’s…