Pen and ink on wove paper, 1965. 320x245 mm; 12 1/2x9 1/2 inches. Signed, dated "July 1, 1965', and inscribed "Georgia" in ink, lower right.
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist; private New York collection.
Benny Andrews was born and raised in Plainview, Georgia, a rural farming community sixty miles east of Atlanta, living there until his Air Force service in 1950. These drawings are evocations of Southern characters from his youth.
