<I>Blues Wake</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2003
name: label: Created by
content: John T. Scott, American, 1940 - 2007
label: Subject of
content: Huddie William Ledbetter, American, 1888 - 1949
notes: label: Description
content: A black and white woodcut depicting two men sitting together. The man on the right faces the viewer and resembles blues singer Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter). He sits with a guitar on his lap, his arms folded and resting on top of the guitar’s body. The man on the left is turned to face the man with the guitar, his face in profile to the viewer. Above the men is a round window. The background is entirely covered in a typographic design, with some of the letters arranged to spell out words including “slave,” “enslaves,” “controller,” “made,” and “prison.” Beneath the image, handwritten in graphite, is the title [Blues Wake] at left, edition [2/40] at center, and the artist’s signature and date [John T. Scott ‘03] at right.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Blues (Music)
label: Topic
content: Musicians
label: Topic
content: Prisons
label: Topic
content: Slavery
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Juanita and Melvin Hardy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2020.58.6
objectType: label: Type
content: woodcuts
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © John T. Scott, Artists Trust
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22 1/2 × 15 in. (57.2 × 38.1 cm)