Paintbrush troubadour
When Woody Guthrie set out for California at the height of the Depression, it wasn't a guitar strapped over his shoulder. It was paintbrushes.
 A spread from a 1946 Woody Guthrie notebook, written as a letter to a friend, in which Guthrie comically applied Darwinian theory to love and marriage. |
PHOTO GALLERY: Samples of Woody Guthrie's work
WE REDUCE OUR artists in death to a shorthand list of images and accomplishments, quickly forgetting more complicated traits. Grant Wood becomes synonymous with the bald farmer in overalls, Martha Graham with her hand-to-head pose and sweeping dress. Woody Guthrie, a bohemian populist, is tolerated because he is also our preeminent folksinger. ''This Land Is Your Land" is a perennial ... (Full article: 1018 words)
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