Jacob's Ladder

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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.

An oil painting depicting a central utopian scene surrounded by a decorative yellow and brown border. The scene depicts a village painted in various shades of yellow, brown, green, blue, and black. At the top of the scene there is a waterfall with the water forming rivers on either side of the village. In the center of the village is an arch painted in yellow, green, and blue with a statue of a human figure at the top. There is a white building painted to the right of the arch. The title of the work is painted in black on the lower right corner of the central scene. Surrounding the scene is a thick painted border the top half of which is brown and the bottom half yellow. On either side of the scene are two yellow circles with a blue border around them. Below the central scene are blue, brown, and black lines.

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