Untitled (Strange Fruit)

Date Circa 1935
Technique Lithograph
Price $1,400.00
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Edition not stated. Signed in pencil.

Image size 13 3/4 x 10 inches (349 x 254 mm); sheet size 19 1/4 x 12 9/16 inches (489 x 319 mm).

A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 to 2 7/8 inches), in very good condition.

Printed by Ted Wahl, with the printer's monogram in the image, lower left.

When Sawyer created this work, the widespread poverty caused by the Great Depression had deepened resentment for African Americans by the whites who sought to enforce racist Jim Crow laws. The Ku Klux Klan and other vigilante groups terrorized black communities and were responsible for thousands of lynchings in their ruthless pursuit of white supremacy.