Double portrait of cotton pickers by William Aiken Walker

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Painting of a man balancing a cotton basket on his head beside a woman in a red headwrap in a cotton field.

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This painting shows two figures standing in a cotton field, a man balancing a large woven basket of cotton on his head and a woman in a red headwrap and white skirt holding a cotton boll. A second basket filled with cotton sits in the foreground, and small cabins with thatched roofs appear in the distance.

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