I noticed this painting at a recent art show and realized that this lifestyle has nearly vanished. Not many people today live on farms, much less tenant farms, and even fewer have yard chickens to feed. The old, wood-frame tenant houses are about gone too. I don't know if this depiction is that of a tenant house, but a restored one would make a good living-history museum.An interesting website about the World of the Tenant Farmer in Texas is HERE.
I imagine the lifestyle was similar to that here in Alabama.
