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17 Items in this Learning Collection
Still Life with Apples (Nature Morte aux Pommes)
A bowl containing apples rests in the center, flanked by two conical drinking cups.
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Landscape of Quito
This horizontal format painting is done in shades of light and dark gray, cream and yellow. With abstracted forms it depicts jagged mountains sihouetted against a cloudy sky. In front of these mountains there are rolling hills and geometric forms that suggest a cityscape. In the foreground there are more mountain peaks.
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Northern Summer Window
A vase with flowers sits before a window, between two books that lie on a table, and framed by open red curtains. The landscape outside the window shows a blue cloud sky above a body of water.
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Boy with Red Kerchief
A shirtless boy sits wearing blue pants with a red kerchief on his head.
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Street Scene
This is a brightly colored oil painting of a street scene. Buildings are depicted in pink, yellow, and white.  A lavender and blue sky with white and yellow clouds makes up the background. Two women stand in the lower left corner; another woman and a black dog are seen on the right side. The ground is made up of patches of white, yellow, pink, and blue.  Thick black outlines are used throughout and the paint has been applied in a very thick and factured manner. Traces of newspaper appear to have been laid on the painting while it was still wet and became stuck and are visible in the clouds at the top and in the white portion of the central building, just under the street lamp.
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Grey Landscape
This oil painting has an abstract composition at the lower right with clusters of white patches against a black and deep blue background. The painting is signed and dated (l.c.) "Raza '63".
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Untitled
A hexagonal canvas with multi-colored lines breaking the surface into three individual, identically-sized sections. Two of the sections are primarily green and one is primarily gray. 
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Untitled Cube
A framework three-dimensional cube sits at an angle so that one of its corners appears to protrude from the center of the piece. The cube is gray, with dark gray shading on the shadowed edges, and dark and light yellow shading on the lit edges. The canvas is cut to the dimensions of the cube.
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The Couple in Raccoon Coats
This is a photograph of an African American couple. A man sits inside his car, while a woman stands just outside, as if she is about to sit in the passenger seat. They both wear large raccoon coats. 
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Model
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.
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Girl, Door, Sea, from "Déja Vu"

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Afro-Cuban Dancers and Percussionists
This print shows two figures dancing in front of three musicians by the water with a moon in the sky and reflected in the water. A far away seaside fort is visible in the upper left corner. 
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Lonesome Road
This is a print of an African American man in a mule-drawn wooden cart. There is a yew tree in the cart, behind the man. The man wears a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, dark pants, and a cap. The road is empty, with fields surrounding the road. There is a wooden church in the background with a tall cross in the ground beside the church.
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Mine Strike
Two shadowed figures with weapons on the left face a group of four figures, in the light, on the right. Of the four, one is holding a sign and another is lying on the ground. Smoke from a fire billows in the background alongside industrial machinery.
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I Got A Gal On Sourwood Mountain

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Untitled

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Copyright
All Rights Reserved ()

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Accession Number
2000/2.122

Title
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Artist(s)
Charles Alston

Object Creation Date
circa 1952

Medium & Support
oil on canvas

Dimensions
46 7/8 in x 36 13/16 in x 2 3/8 in (119 cm x 93.5 cm x 6 cm);36 3/4 in x 46 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in (93.35 cm x 118.75 cm x 5.72 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis

Primary Object Classification
Painting

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary;Western

Rights
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Keywords
abstraction

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Light Details
(Part of 2 Learning Collections)
Student Curatorial Project: African-American artists in UMMA's collection
(Part of: W21 and W22 Ellsworth - AAS 290 - The Tulsa Race Massacre)

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On display

UMMA Gallery Location ➜ FFW, 2nd floor ➜ 212 (A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II)