Lorene Thomas Picketing on Main Street, Memphis

Artist Ernest C. Withers (American, 1922 - 2007)

Dateca. 1950-1972

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsComposition: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Sheet: 16 x 13 in. (40.6 x 33 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineMemphis Brooks Museum of Art purchase; funds provided by Sara and Kevin Adams, Deupree Family Foundation, Henry and Lynne Turley, Kaywin Feldman and Jim Lutz, and Marina Pacini and David McCarthy

Object number2006.31.134

ProvenanceMr. Alan Scott, Memphis, Tennessee, 2006

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