Writing | Mark Stoneman

Sep 15, 2017 ∞

Writing

Pastel: middle-aged black woman in a blue, short-sleeved housecoat is sitting at a table with a well worn text book and a clump of papers. Her eyes are pointed down toward these materials, and a pencil is in her right hand.

"The Writing Lesson" (pastel) by Morris Schulman, sponsored by the WPA, ca. 1935–43, The New York Public Library.

I blogged some thoughts on this compelling image recently at History of Knowledge.

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