SOWETO

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.

A poster print of an original print by Adger Cowans. The black and white work depicts an abstracted face rendered through a multitude of finely etched diagonal and horizontal black lines. The eyes are depicted by thin slits, the nose by a vertical line with two oval-shaped nostrils, and the mouth an "o" shape. Along the bottom edge of the image, below the figure's chin, black letters against white background spell out [ SO WE TO]. The poster has a white border with wider margins at top and bottom. Below the image, handwritten by the artist in gold colored ink is a circle letter [c] at lower left corner, the title ["SOWETO"] at center, and the artist's signature and date [Adger Cowens- / 80-] at lower right corner. There are no further marks or inscriptions, front or back.

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