SOWETO

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.

A black and white print made from a copper plate etching. The print is of an abstracted face rendered through a multitude of finely etched diagonal and horizontal black lines. The eyes are depicted by thin slits, the nose is depicted by a vertical line with two oval-shaped nostrils, and the mouth is depicted by an "o" shape. Along the bottom edge of the image, below the figure's chin, letters in Serif-style font spell [ SO WE TO]. Below the image, the artist has hand-written the edition number at left, the print titled in the middle, and his signature and date on the right.

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