Found Object -- Harlem Visage, Recast in the Dirty, Dirty

• Augusta Savage, Gwendolyn Knight, 1937. Worth knowing. Worth the travel.
  

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• Henry Ossawa Tanner, Untitled, ca. 1895. Our apologies for the lo-fi repro. In the meantime, the Duke Ellington of painting moves on.
  

Found Object -- Old Time

• Floyd Gordon, unknown title or date. Found rolling in the back woods of the dirty dirty.
  

We never quite know what to do with this kind of picturing of the old south. The brovah, who stands above most of this work for his strong views of the city & storybook colorism, consistently traffics in nostalgia, and we're asking ourselves whether that's a bad thing. It may be a very different kind of unnaground that he's walking through, and while he's busy resurrecting what he wishes happened, we're walking the streets doing only the same and wishing for the wrong things.

I would ask the queen of the blues what she thinks, but only after Dust Tracks. She might have the right thing to say.

Found Object -- Gots to get us more of these Pancaribbean flashes

This washed up on the beach, sent to us in a bottle from an island friend. "They want to go like this, like Farrah Fawcett," rasta stylee.

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• William Arthur Cooper, Lumber Industry, 1934.
  

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• Henry Ossawa Tanner, Lions in the Desert, ca. 1897-1900. This guy is so good that I am beginning to see him in the same light as Duke Ellington.
  

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• Henry Ossawa Tanner, Fishermen at Sea, ca. 1913. It was the Queen of the Blues who said, "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon."
  

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Evening Rendevouz, Norman Lewis (1962).

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Swing, Sam Williams (1969). He means that kind of swing.

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Death of Cleopatra, Edmonia Lewis. This is the mothership connection.

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Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (2008). He's perpetrating deep. Dig?

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Unidentified Artist, Head of a King, (1525-1575).

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Edmonia Lewis, Bust of Longfellow (1871).

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Henry Ossawa Tanner, Bust of Benjamin Tanner, (1894).

Is this a sculpture of Lester Freamon? Like Lester, it's in Baytown.

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Norman Lewis, Untitled (Alabama), (1967).

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