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Cotton-Gin Mill
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Cotton-Gin Mill

Artist
Year1940
Classification painting
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions4'2" x 10'10-5/7"
Credits Commissioned through the Section of Fine Arts, 1934 - 1943
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Location
  • Commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts of the Treasury Department, this mural represents the cotton industry in Henry County.   The mural depicts a cotton gin processing the cotton brought from the fields.  A cotton press expels bales onto platform scales. A seed conveyor runs to the high seed house, which dumps seeds through a trapdoor to wagons beneath it. Mules wait,  chomping at the bit, while gin hands maneuver the bales at the scales. A girl waits to receive money for the bale.