Mama Can Sing

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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 color lithograph depicting a woman singing. Outlined in blue and metallic gold against black, she wears a blue and gold striped dress and spreads her arms wide, her face tilted back, and her purple lips open in song. There are blue accent shapes behind her and, in the space between her arms and her body, the words “MAMA CAN SING.” In the margin just below the image, handwritten in graphite is the edition [AP 8/20], the title [Mama Can Sing] and the artist’s signature [Faith Ringgold 12/11/04].

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