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. He faces front, his gaze directly on the viewer. He has a mustache and short beard around his jawline. The bird emerging from the crown of his head is shown from its neck upward. Its head is turned slightly to the right, giving a quarter profile. The portrait is enclosed in a frame of red paint in the shape of a birdcage. The two sides consist of narrow red lines while the bottom is a thick red line. The top of the “cage” is a thick flat red line with a decorative red finial in the center. The finial has a pedestal base with a ridge and a knob on top.

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