Museum object · Visual Arts
I Sang The Blues Black: 9 Holes
2019
Beaufort County, South Carolina, 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 framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair and minimal indigo dye with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Planation. The edges of the portrait are rough. In the center bottom of the portrait is a horizontal image of a tree line from the True Blue plantation. Near the bottom of the tree line to the left is printed black text [plans]. In the bottom right corner is printed black text [#18 Golf Club].
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Catalog reference: 2021.42.8
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