Psychological Redlining (13 Studies)

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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.

This is a mixed media portrait of a man with a pigeon emerging from the top of his head, framed within a red frame in the shape of a birdcage. The graphite portrait shows the man from the neck up. His head is in a quarter-turn profile to the left. He has a slight beard along his jawline and a mustache along his upper lip. The bird emerging from the crown of his head is shown from the chest up. It is in profile to the viewer, facing the left. The man’s gaze is cast slightly downwards. The portrait is enclosed in a frame of red paint creating a birdcage with a rounded top. The two sides consist of thin red lines while the bottom is a wide red line. The top of the “cage” is a dome created by numerous narrow red lines that come together at the center top.

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