Farmer Playing Fiddle, North Georgia
1961, printed 1997
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.5 × 33.5 cm (8 7/8 × 13 3/16 in.) sheet: 27.94 × 35.56 cm (11 × 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist)
Accession Number
2015.19.4582
About the Artist
John Cohen
John Cohen (1932–2019) was a pioneering American photographer, painter, musician, and filmmaker whose multifaceted career bridged the vibrant art scenes of mid-20th-century New York and the raw authenticity of Appalachian folk traditions. Born on August 2, 1932, in Sunnyside, Queens, to Israel Cohen, a shoe store owner, he grew up on eastern Long Island, where he first picked up the guitar and ban...