{"data":{"id":"27711","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":27711,"topgoose_id":6218,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":27711,"title":"Untitled","display_artist_text":"Gordon Parks","display_date":"1950","accession_number":"2006.26","dimensions":"Sheet: 6 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (16.8 × 24.4 cm)","medium":"Gelatin silver print","department":"collection","classification":"Photographs","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"Vintage","publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eGordon Parks, \u003cem\u003eUntitled\u003c/em\u003e, 1950. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 6 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (16.8 × 24.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2006.26. Courtesy of and © The Gordon Parks Foundation\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":null,"ai_alt_text":"A woman with glasses concentrates while holding playing cards across a kitchen table with a man.","alt_text":"Working with LIFE Magazine, Parks returned to Fort Scott, Kansas to track down and photograph eleven of his junior high classmates\u0026nbsp;to consider the impact of segregated schooling.\u0026nbsp;The majority of the photos from this series were taken in Kansas but he also traveled to see some of his classmates that had moved away -- to Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and Saint Louis.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; The Parks Foundation has digitized an image from this series which I'm certain is a portrait of\u0026nbsp;the man who is seen from behind in the Whitney's print (see below).\u0026nbsp;I haven't been able to find the names of the people photographed here, but from the caption provided by the foundation, this image was taken in Chicago.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; This cover story on segregation was shelved and never published by LIFE.\u0026nbsp; In 2015, the MFA Boston exhibited many of these works together in the exhibition \"Gordon Parks: Back to For Scott.\" \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;Image url: https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/gordon-parks/photography-archive/back-to-fort-scott-1950?view=slider#10 \u0026nbsp;","visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:03:06.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:58.931-05:00","images":[{"id":107809,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/27711/2006_26_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"5146","type":"artist"}]}}}}