Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Mrs. Jefferson, 1950, printed 2017, gelatin silver print…

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Mrs. Jefferson

Portfolio/SeriesFort Scott Revisited, LIFE Magazine, 1950 (unpublished)

Artist Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (United States, 1912 - 2006)

Date1950, printed 2017

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsIMAGE: 16 7/8 x 14 in. (428.6 x 355.6 mm)
SHEET: 20 x 16 in. (508 x 406.4 mm)
FRAME: 27 x 21 in. (68.6 x 53.3 cm)

Object TypePhotographs

Credit LineKansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.373. Image courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation.

Object number2017.373

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Parks included twelve photographs about Kansas in his gift of 128, most from the 1950 LIFE assignment that motivated him to return to Kansas after twenty years away. The resulting photo-essay, Fort Scott Revisited (Parks’s title), documented the lives of African Americans living in segregated Fort Scott and what happened to Parks’s classmates after graduating from their all-Black junior high school. Although the photo-essay went unpublished in the magazine, Parks included photographs taken in Fort Scott in his 1975 book Moments Without Proper Names and in a film of the same name that aired on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) in 1987. The afterlife of Fort Scott Revisited demonstrates the significance it held for Parks.

Parks chose this photograph when the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art invited Parks to participate in its Gift Print program in 1993. The program celebrates a Kansas artist by offering the public an opportunity to collect a fine art print commissioned by the museum from that artist.

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Gordon Parks: "Homeward to the Prairie I Come"

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Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come

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