Dancers & Demons

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 black and white lithograph with hand-coloring in red. The print depicts two, solid black silhouette figures dancing around a central pole, surrounded by abstract, geometric faces. The faces have sinister, exaggerated features with round, white eyes and wide-open mouths with jagged white teeth and protruding red tongues. On all four sides of the image is a black border with stock market symbols and data arranged into rows and columns. The print is titled, signed, and dated by the artist in graphite beneath the image: [15/30 2nd State/ w/ hand color in red “Dancers + Demons” C. Billops 1979].

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