Art Institute of Chicago
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Forgotten Printmaker in the New Deal Era
Dox Thrash (1893-1965) He was born in Griffin, Georgia, on March 22, 1893. Dox was the second of four children in his family. Thrash left home at the age of fifteen in search of work up north. He was part of the Great Migration (African American) looking for industrial work in the North. The first job that Thrash…
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West Harlem Art Fund 