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I Sang The Blues Black: 9 Holes

2019

Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America

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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 framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Planation. The edges of the portrait are rough. At the center of the portrait is an image of the True Blue Planter’s Residence. Near the bottom right and printed in black text is [Club] and an illegible signature.

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Catalog reference: 2021.42.9

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