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Clearing land, Sabine Farms, Marshall, Texas

Artwork Tombstone
ArtistRussell Lee (American, 1903–1986)
TitleClearing land, Sabine Farms, Marshall, Texas
DateApril 1939
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (16.5 × 24.2 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.7 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineHenry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number79.200.XX.1.253
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A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a man throwing a clump of branches into a smoking woodpile in the middle of a field. Smoke rises from the cleared field behind him. In the distance, a dense treeline is visible.

A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a man throwing a clump of branches into a smoking woodpile in the middle of a field. Smoke rises from the cleared field behind him. In the distance, a dense treeline is visible.

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"Clearing land, Sabine Farms, Marshall, Texas | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=79.200.XX.1.253