Fiddler's Contest

Howard Cook made this image of a fiddling contest in Brookwood, Alabama, thanks to a Guggenheim Grant to travel in and document the South for a year. He made at least one other drawing of the subject as well as a lithograph based on both works. Cook wrote, "We marveled at the nimble fingers of these raw country-men as they fiercely . . . played and at the red-blooded vigor of the stories that rolled forth."