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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Mrs. Jefferson, 1949, printed 1993, gelatin silver print…
Mrs. Jefferson
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Mrs. Jefferson, 1949, printed 1993, gelatin silver print…
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Mrs. Jefferson, 1949, printed 1993, gelatin silver print 10 15/16 x 12 7/16 in. KSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, 1993 Friends of Art Gift Print, 2002.257 Image courtesy of and copyright by the Gordon Parks Foundation.
Image courtesy of and copyright by Gordon Parks Foundation

Mrs. Jefferson

Portfolio/SeriesFort Scott Revisited, LIFE Magazine, 1950 (unpublished)
Artist (United States, 1912 - 2006)
Publisher (United States, 1929 - 1996)
Date1949, printed 1993
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsIMAGE/SHEET: 10 15/16 x 12 7/16 in. (277.8 x 315.9 mm)
Object TypePhotographs
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, 1993 Friends of Art Gift Print
Object number2002.257
On View
Not on view
Description

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 Although the photo-essay    went unpublished in the magazine, Parks included photographs taken in Fort Scott in his 1975 book Moments Without Proper Names and in a film of the same name that aired on PBS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.   


Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Mrs. Jefferson, 1949, printed 1993, gelatin silver print…
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1949, printed 1993
2002.258
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Mrs. Jefferson, 1949, printed 1993, gelatin silver print…
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1949, printed 1993
2002.259
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1950, printed 2017
2017.373
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1993
U28.2012
Image courtesy of and copyright by Gordon Parks Foundation
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1950, printed 2017
2017.443
Image courtesy of and copyright by Gordon Parks Foundation
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1950, printed 2017
2017.437
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Former King, Carol of Romania,1950, printed 2017, gelati…
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1950, printed 2017
2017.389
Image courtesy of and copyright by Gordon Parks Foundation
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1952, printed 2017
2017.449
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, 
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1950, printed 2017
2017.379
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2017.477