a young boy, a sharecropper's son, on a porch

I was inspired to paint this young man from a photo taken for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. The FSA documented the challenges of rural poverty from 1935-1944 with photos.

Coal Miner's Son
20 X 24

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