Philip Evergood (1901-1978)
Sorrowing Farmers 1938
lithograph, 8 1/2 x 12 1/4, signed; ed. 19/25
Fifty Prints of the Year 1938
UAM 1992.93

Evergood described this scene of farm foreclosure as a moment of family solidarity; "These men of the family seek to console the woman who weeps at the thought of a future of insecurity." However, this dramatic portrait -- apparently so much more realistic than these other, more sentimental images -- is based not on first-hand experience, but on newspaper photographs.