This work's importance is reflected in its extensive exhibition and publication history. Art historian and Catlett scholar Melanie Ann Herzog devotes an entire section to this sculpture in herElizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico. In "Homage...
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Who was Gordon Parks? Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director. He is best remembered for his photographic essays for Life magazine and as the director of...
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Alfred Hair was a stand-out student at Lincoln Academy High School, when his teacher took him to meet A.E. Backus, who then encouraged him to paint. Hair would spend days helping Backus and at night, would travel back across the train tracks to the African-American...
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