Landscape with Kwame Nkrumah

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

A contemporary artwork made of acrylic and collage on canvas. This artwork is comprised of three (3) canvases connected together to form a T-shape. Down the center of the artwork, across all three (3) canvases, is painted a large, vertical splash of black acrylic and tar mix, which partially or fully covers all of the elements of collage and mixed media. The attached elements include burlap, photocopied images on paper, metal, a plank of wood and two small wood doors, pieces of cut glass, leather and fur. Many of the photocopied images are of conflict or military themes, while others are images of sculptures and other artworks, and a cluster of images at the center-right of the artwork are of the Ghanaian former President Kwame Nkrumah. Underneath the areas painted with the black acrylic and tar mix, a wash of gray, blue, and brown acrylic paints swirl around the canvases in thick brushstrokes.

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