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 has a mustache and goatee. He faces front, his gaze slightly to the right of the viewer. The pigeon emerging from the crown of his head is shown from its neck upward. It sits slightly to the left side of the man’s head. The bird is depicted face forward, beak angled downward, eyes gazing directly at the viewer. 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” has a domed top consisting of narrow red lines that meet at the top of the dome.

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