Exchange: W15 Oches - ENGLISH 124 - Race and Sexuality in Modernist Fiction

W15 Oches - ENGLISH 124 - Race and Sexuality in Modernist Fiction

Seven figures wearing brightly colored clothes dance together in a room.

Elizabeth Olds
Harlem Dancers
woodcut on paper
10 1/16 in x 14 ⅛ in (25.56 cm x 35.88 cm)
Allocated by the U.S. Government Commissioned through the New Deal art projects

This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45".

Glenn Ligon
Untitled
etching, aquatint, spitbite, and sugarlift on Rives BFK paper
25 in x 17 1/4 in (63.5 cm x 43.82 cm);32 3/16 in x 26 3/16 in (81.76 cm x 66.52 cm)
Museum Purchase

This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on black background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45".

Glenn Ligon
Untitled
etching, aquatint, spitbite, and sugarlift on Rives BFK paper
25 in x 17 1/4 in (63.5 cm x 43.82 cm);32 3/16 in x 26 3/16 in (81.76 cm x 66.52 cm)
Museum Purchase

Christian Rohlfs
Dancers (Zwei Tänzende)
linoleum cut on paper
11 ⅛ in x 11 4/5 in (28.26 cm x 30 cm);18 ⅛ in x 22 ⅛ in (46.04 cm x 56.2 cm);14 7/16 in x 14 4/5 in (36.67 cm x 37.62 cm)
Museum Purchase

A nude man and woman at center struggle with one another; a snake and a seated figure are visible in the background. The two central figures with intertwined limbs suggesting a struggle are positioned above a sharp-toothed mammal resembling a fox.

Max Pechstein
The Lord's Prayer, sheet 8 - And Lead Us Not into Temptation (Das Vaterunser - Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung)
woodcut with hand-coloring on paper
23 ½ in x 16 ¼ in (59.69 cm x 41.28 cm);28 ⅛ in x 22 in (71.44 cm x 55.88 cm)
Museum Purchase

This is a photograph of the side of a building with two posters advertising a movie and circus.

Walker Evans
Movie and Minstrel Show Posters on Brick Wall, Demopolis, Alabama
gelatin silver print on paper
18 in x 22 in (45.72 cm x 55.88 cm)
Gift of Maxine and Lawrence K. Snider

The color screenprint depicts four dark skinned figures walking past a construction site—likely a family. The man is dressed in a black suit, black shoes, yellow tie, and tan hat. The woman wears a red and white dress, yellow jacket, and red cap. The little girl stands to the left of mother, holding her hand. She wears a yellow dress, white tights, brown shoes, and a red cap. A small boy wears brown pants, tan shoes, a yellow shirt, and blue jacket. He stands to the right of the father and holds his hand. <br /><br />
In the background, there are three men working at the construction site. There are two men in blue jumpsuits, one has dark skin and the other white. A third dark skinned man wears a gray jumpsuit and holds a saw. The print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Jacob Lawrence 1974" in pencil.

Jacob Lawrence
Builders (The Family)
screenprint on paper
34 in x 25 3/4 in (86.36 cm x 65.41 cm);29 15/16 in x 22 1/8 in (76.04 cm x 56.2 cm);38 3/4 in x 28 in (98.43 cm x 71.12 cm)
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis

An assemblage of found objects: a salvaged wood frame with wood inlay letters spelling "COLORED," four portrait photographs of African American females (two photogaphs on either side of a printed poem), nine thread samples under photographs, and one hand mirror hanging on a decorative brass hook to the viewer's right of the frame. The poem reads: <br />
"Light is Alright<br />
Yellow is Mellow<br />
Brown, Stick Around<br />
Black, Get Back<br />
(but black don't crack)"<br />
<br />
The wood has a strong smell, may have been treated with molasses.<br />
<br />

Betye Saar
Colored
mixed media assemblage with photographs, paper, and thread on wood
14 ½ in x 30 in x 1 ½ in (36.83 cm x 76.2 cm x 3.81 cm);10 in x 5 in x ½ in (25.4 cm x 12.7 cm x 1.27 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by Dr. James and Vivian Curtis and the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund

Enrique Chagoya
UtopianCannibal.org
color lithograph, woodcut, chine collé, and collage
7 1/2 in. x 92 in. ( 19 cm x 233.7 cm )
Museum Purchase made possible by the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund

A photograph of four men sitting on and standing around an over-turned canoe. The figures hold fishing nets. One figure holds a fan and faces the viewer.

Francis Frith
Untitled, from "Frith's Series"
albumen print on paper
8 3/4 in x 9 13/16 in (22.23 cm x 24.92 cm);14 5/16 in x 19 5/16 in (36.35 cm x 49.05 cm);8 3/4 in x 9 13/16 in (22.23 cm x 24.92 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis through the Friends of the Museum of Art

This black and white stereoscopic image features two images of a group of Indians sitting on dead animals on their backs in a river. It is surrounded by the text: Set No. 8; Keystone View Company; Unique; Inflated Bullock Skins for Ferry Boats on Sutlej River in the Punjab, India.<br />

Stereo Classics Studio
Stereoscope Image, Set No. 8: Inflated Bullock Skins for Ferry Boats on Sutlej River in the Punjab, India
photograph on cardboard
3 9/16 in. x 7 in. ( 9 cm x 17.8 cm )
Gift of Margaret and Howard Bond

A studio portrait of a young African American woman in 1920s apparel, including a short hairstyle, stockings, necklace, and dress. She stands with her left leg resting on a bench with her right arm akimbo.

James Van Der Zee
Model
gelatin silver print on paper
7 in x 5 in (17.78 cm x 12.7 cm);14 5/16 in x 19 5/16 in (36.35 cm x 49.05 cm)
Museum Purchase

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