Missouri Kinfolk

The Story

    This drawing was made for a man that lives down in the Ozark region of southern Missouri. He found a tattered and faded photograph taken in 1904.  It was of his grandfathers brand new store building. It was a general county store, like the ones so common throughout the country at that time.    All the people in the picture just happened to be there at the time the photographer showed up. I re-created it for him in the form of a large graphite drawing, doing the best I could to fill in the hazy details. In the process of making this piece I uncovered a connection to my own
history, as my father’s family lived in this same area at about that time.

Roger DeWitt, Artist

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