Eurydice Ascending, Orpheus Looks Back

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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.

A color linocut depicting Orpheus, in the foreground with a guitar, and Eurydice to his proper right. The print is yellow in the center and shifts to green along the edges and solid black at the top and bottom. Just above Orpheus is a distinctive orb design and surrounding both figures are multiple small figures and structures, as well as scattered red flames. A devil figure in black appears along the left side of the print with a pillar of rectangular buildings along the right side. Just right of top center, a small figure holds a yellow orb next to a small yellow house. The title of the print [Eurydice Ascending, Orpheus Looks Back] is written in pencil on the bottom left corner underneath the image. Written in pencil on the bottom center is [3rd Imp] and the print is signed in pencil on the bottom right corner [James L. Wells ‘82].

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