Color screenprint, 1978. 508x406 mm: 20x16 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 44/60 in pencil, and then re-traced and titled in red pencil, lower margin.
Exhibited: Rex Goreleigh: Revisited in Princeton, Princeton Historical Society, Princeton, NJ, September 2, 2009 - January 18, 2010.
This large screenprint is Rex Goreleigh's interpretation of the same-titled painting which was his thesis project at Rutgers University in 1978. Goreleigh revisits a subject fro, his Migrant Series of paintings and prints from the 1960s and 70s - the fruit and tobacco pickers working in the fields of New Jersey. According to a 1983 New Jersey Monthly interview with the artist, this imagery goes back to the days of slavery - hence the title In the Beginning - when women nursing babies had to keep working in the fields. Another impression is in the collection of the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia.
