The Cotton Pickers
| The Cotton Pickers | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Winslow Homer |
| Year | 1876 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 61.12 cm × 96.84 cm (24.06 in × 38.13 in) |
| Location | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California |
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).