Photograph of a boy at the Detroit Art Institute. He sits on the floor, making an object out of clay. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0005-23

Photograph of a boy working on a piece of art at the Detroit Art Institute. The boy sits on the ground with a piece of paper and what appears to be clay. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0030-16

Photograph of two boys at the Detroit Art Institute. They sit on the ground with large pieces of paper and what appears to be clay, looking upward at a statue of a donkey. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0034-31

Photograph of two young girls painting a picture at the Detroit Art Institute. They sit on the floor, and the girl on the left appears to have drawn a house and a person. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0013-19

Photograph of four students at the Detroit Institute of Art. The children sit on the ground with art materials in front of them. Photo by Bernice Clark. Signed by: Bernice Clark Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0031-36

Photograph of a boy and a girl looking for places to put their art on the ground in a hallway of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Mounted pieces line the hallway walls, whereas the children's work is placed along the ground. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0025-22

Photograph of a man painting in the Detroit Art Institute. The unidentified man is standing in front of a canvas filled with an assortment of shapes, and is smiling while holding a paintbrush.

Photograph of a woman and a young boy at the Detroit Art Institute. The woman looks at a piece of paper the boy is holding up. A statue stands in the right corner.

Photograph of a woman sitting in a circle with several children at the Detroit Art Institute. They gather near a donkey statue with paper in front of them. Stairs and exhibits can be seen in the background.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell and his dog, Old Tize, as well as a plow, in a field at sunset.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell and his dog, Old Tize, as well as a plow, in a field at sunset.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell and his dog, Old Tize, as well as a plow, in a field at sunset.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell and his dog, Old Tize, as well as a plow, in a field at sunset.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell and his dog, Old Tize, as well as a plow, in a field at sunset.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell and his dog, Old Tize, as well as a plow, in a field at sunset.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell and his dog, Old Tize, as well as a plow, in a field at sunset.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell standing in open field with a plow behind him at sunset.

Jimmy Powell in a field with a plow at sunset.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell standing in a field with a plow at sunset.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell standing in a field at sunset. There is a plow on the ground behind him.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell holding a large rifle with a dog along a fence line. In the image the boy is surveying the farmland in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Joe never had photographs of himself growing up in Tennessee. He returned many times to photograph Jimmy and create an "Autobiographical" series of what Joe recalled his life to be. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 7023-0058-33

Photograph of JImmy Powell shooting a gun into the air. He stands in a field of tall grass without wearing a shirt. The words "the country boy" are written on the mat beneath the photograph. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."

Photograph of Jimmy Powell sitting atop a fence post on a cloudy day.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell sitting atop a fence post on a cloudy day.