Museum object · Visual Arts
The Opener
1997
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
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 silkscreen print depicts a man mounted on a galloping white horse. Wearing a brown coat, brown bicorn hat with white plumes, white trousers, tall boots and spurs. Brandishing a sword in his left hand, he looks over his shoulder behind him while his horse gallops from left to right through tall grass. The image is surrounded by a wide white margin, with the chop mark of the print shop, Workshop Inc. in the lower left corner.
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Catalog reference: 2008.12.9
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