The Burning

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This silkscreen print depicts a cluster of six houses on fire. The small white and brown houses are gathered at the top of a hill surrounded by tall grasses. Each house is topped with small yellow and red flames. The sky is a mottled grey. The image is surrounded by a wide white margin, with the chop mark of the print shop, Workshop Inc. in the lower left corner.

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