John Lapsley (aka John Whitfield Lapsley, Jr.)
American, 1915–2005
As a lifelong resident of Selma, Alabama, Lapsley was closely tied to all the residents of that west Alabama community. While he used members of his family as the subjects for many of his portraits or scenes of daily life, he frequently depicted members of the Black community as well. In keeping with the time period at the end of the Second World War in the mid-1940s, Lapsley portrayed a society that was very much in transition, from the changes that permeated life all over the United States, to the slow evolution of his own hometown. Like many Social Realist painters that found their subjects within the conditions brought about by the Great Depression, his subjects often reflected the enduring poverty of residents Black and white in rural Alabama that persisted despite the industry and commerce that was generated by the war effort elsewhere in America.
American, 1915–2005
Young Girl Screaming
1945
Object Type:
Painting
Dimensions:
16 in. x 12 in. (40.64 cm x 30.48 cm)
Medium and Support:
Duco on Celotex
Accession Number:
1990.0003.0002
Credit Line:
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association Purchase
As a lifelong resident of Selma, Alabama, Lapsley was closely tied to all the residents of that west Alabama community. While he used members of his family as the subjects for many of his portraits or scenes of daily life, he frequently depicted members of the Black community as well. In keeping with the time period at the end of the Second World War in the mid-1940s, Lapsley portrayed a society that was very much in transition, from the changes that permeated life all over the United States, to the slow evolution of his own hometown. Like many Social Realist painters that found their subjects within the conditions brought about by the Great Depression, his subjects often reflected the enduring poverty of residents Black and white in rural Alabama that persisted despite the industry and commerce that was generated by the war effort elsewhere in America.
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