Mississippi Girl

A muralist, painter, and lithographer, Marion Greenwood had a lifelong passion for representing workers, immigrants, and the poor. She studied at the progressive Art Students League and was elected to the National Academy of Design. She was one of only two women appointed as an artist war correspondent during World War II. Greenwood based this print on one of her paintings, which had won an award at the Carnegie Institute. An art critic wrote that the painting revealed “the uncanny power of this artist to capture and dramatize the inner, as well as the outer, nature of her subjects.”