Road Hog

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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 abstract acrylic painting by Claude Lawrence in yellow, peach, white, and black. The painting features a golden yellow field across the bottom half, with a swath of peach in the upper right quadrant. There are broad strokes of black paint along the left side, particularly at the upper left and stretching along the top to the upper right corner.Thinner strokes of grey and black paint form scallops and ruffles inside the yellow and peach fields. All four edges of the paper are deckled. The verso has the title of the painting [RoAd Hog] above the artist’s signature and the date [3/14].

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