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Cotton Pickers (Serbian Band)
Cotton Pickers may refer to: * '' The Cotton Pickers'', an 1876 oil painting by Winslow Homer * ''The Cotton-Pickers ''The Cotton-Pickers'' is a 1926 novel by B. Traven. Plot Gale is an itinerant who works jobs as a cotton picker, baker, cowboy, and oil rigger. He participates in a number of successive, spontaneous strikes without organized unions. He th ...'', a 1926 novel by B. Traven * McKinney's Cotton Pickers, an American jazz band * Morrilton Cotton Pickers, a 19th-century American minor league baseball team {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cotton Pickers
''The Cotton Pickers'' is an 1876 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. It depicts two young African-American women in a cotton field. Stately, silent and with barely a flicker of sadness on their faces, the two black women in the painting are unmistakable in their disillusionment: they picked cotton before the war and they are still picking cotton afterward. The painting is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Background Early in his artistic career, Homer apprenticed to a lithographer creating images for sheet music and other publications. After the apprenticeship ended, he began making illustrations on a regular freelance basis for the magazine ''Harper’s Weekly''. When the Civil War began, Harper’s made him an artist-correspondent with the Army of the Potomac. Over the next few years, the artist directly witnessed and recorded life in the Union Army. Homer made many sketches that served as the basis for magazine illu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cotton-Pickers
''The Cotton-Pickers'' is a 1926 novel by B. Traven. Plot Gale is an itinerant who works jobs as a cotton picker, baker, cowboy, and oil rigger. He participates in a number of successive, spontaneous strikes without organized unions. He thinks of Guatemala and Argentina often. Publication '' Vorwärts'', the Social Democratic Party of Germany's newspaper, published a serialized version of ''The Cotton-Pickers'' as ''Die Baumwollpflücker'' between June 21 and July 2, 1925. published a modified version as a full-length book, ''Der Wobbly'' (The Wobbly). Traven was influenced by the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in Chicago in 1905. The origin of the nickname "Wobblies" is uncertain. IWW ideology combines genera ...) in Mexico as he arrived in 1924. Eleanor Brockett translated the book into English for Robert Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McKinney's Cotton Pickers
McKinney's Cotton Pickers were an American jazz band, founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States in 1926, and led by William McKinney, who expanded his Synco Septet to ten players. Cuba Austin took over for McKinney on drums, with the latter becoming the band's manager. Between 1927 and 1931, they were one of the most popular African American bands. Many of their records for Victor were bestsellers. In 1927, Fletcher Henderson's arranger and saxophone player Don Redman was invited to become the Cotton Pickers' musical director and he assembled a band. John Nesbitt helped Redman with arrangements and rehearsals. The band in 1928 included Cuba Austin (drums and vocals), Langston Curl (trumpet), Ralph Escudero (tuba), Claude Jones, Redman (clarinet, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, vocals), Todd Rhodes (piano, celeste), Prince Robinson (clarinet, tenor saxophone), Milton Senior (trombone), George Thomas (clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, vocals) and Dave Wilborn (banjo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |