<I>Death</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1962
name: label: Created by
content: Benny Andrews, American, 1930 - 2006
notes: label: Caption
content: Benny Andrews was a figurative painter in the expressionist style whose work represents a diverse range themes of suffering and injustice, including The Holocaust, Native American forced migrations, and most recently, Hurricane Katrina. Other influences on his work include Surrealism and southern folk art...The objects donated reflect a period (1960s) in Andrews’ life when he was heavily involved in fighting systematic oppression in the south. Andrews probably witnessed the horrors of Jim Crow such as lynching, as depicted in Envy (1964) and Death (1962).
label: Caption
content: List of bibliographic references: www.wikipedia.com, TMS Constituent File
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content: Written by/date: Kassie Edwards - 9/15/2016, reviewed by Jacquelyn D. Serwer 10/19/2016
label: Description
content: This collage depicts a Christ-like figure lying across a short horizontal surface covered with textured draperies of blue and yellow-green. The Christ-like figure is a bearded man with a halo, and red marks around the forehead. The figure has a red wound in its left side, and red wounds in the hands and feet. The right arm is outstretched above the figure's head, and he wears a loincloth. The painting has a black background.
place: label: Place collected
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
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content: Art
label: Topic
content: Christianity
label: Topic
content: Religion
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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 the Benny Andrews Estate and Foundation by courtesy of UNCF
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.148.5
objectType: label: Type
content: collages
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Benny Andrews Estate / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Permission required for use
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: oil , paper (fiber product) , cloth on canvas
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (unframed): 51 9/16 × 80 3/8 in. (131 × 204.2 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (frame): 52 3/8 × 81 1/2 × 2 7/16 in. (133 × 207 × 6.2 cm)