Wild yam

Wild yam

Botany

Yams -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Botanical illustration

Leaves

Mountain plants

This pen-and-ink drawing is of a wild yam (Dioscorea) with vine and leaves. The drawing is signed and dated in pencil and labeled: “Bullhead Trail.” Irving Rhodes Fromer (1913-1994) was a self-taught artist who was employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s. He worked for both the TVA and the National Park Service and later lived in California, where he was known for creating socially conscious art.

Fromer, Irving Rhodes, 1913-1994

Civilian Conservation Corps Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1937-07-06

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drawings (visual works)

eng

StillImage

20248

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2015-06-01

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Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Sevier County (Tenn.)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

14.75" x 11.5"(dimension)

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