Psychological Redlining (13 Studies)

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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.

This is a mixed media portrait of a man with a pigeon emerging from the top of his head, framed within a red frame in the shape of a birdcage. The graphite portrait shows the man from the neck up. He faces front with a very slight turn of his head towards the viewer’s right-hand side. His gaze is directed slightly to the right. There are two birds emerging from his head, shown from the chest up. The on the right faces forward. The one on the left turns its head and leans slightly towards the other bird. Its head is in profile to the viewer. The portrait is enclosed in a frame of red paint creating a birdcage with a rounded top. The two sides consist of thin red lines while the bottom is a wide red line.

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