Big Wind in Georgia, Hale Aspacio Woodruff, 1936

Big Wind in Georgia, Hale Aspacio Woodruff, 1936

How does one paint the weather? Here, Woodruff layers thick streaks of white paint over blue-black clouds and red Georgia soil, blurring top and bottom, earth and sky. Superimposed on this abstracted background, a donkey with hoofs in the air, leafless trees, and a splintering outhouse suggest the many lives uprooted by the natural and economic disasters of the 1930s.

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