Russell Lee’s The Blessing at Dinner on the Grounds at the All-Day Community Sing, Pie Town, New Mexico (1940)

Russell Lee. The Blessing at Dinner on the Grounds at the All-Day Community Sing, Pie Town, New Mexico (1940). Courtesy Library of Congress. LC-USF33- 012785-M5 [P&P]

The Blessing at Dinner on the Grounds at the All-Day Community Sing

Lee’s photograph of The Blessing at Dinner on the Grounds at the All-Day Community Sing, Pie Town, New Mexico (1940) records a community’s religious and social life at the behest of the Farm Services Bureau.

See Lee’s collection of photographs of the Dinner on the Grounds in Pie Town in June 1940. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?&pk=fsa1998001291/PP&st=gallery&sb=call_number#focus; Nell Choate Jones. Church Supper (1945) Greenville Museum of Art Greenville, SC
Edna Lewis’s The Taste of Country Cooking  (1977)
Paul Sample. Church Supper (1933), oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA