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Rupert García
born French Camp, California 1941
Obama from Douglass
2010
pigment inkjet on paper
García, one of the most renowned graphic artists of the civil rights era, now creates digitally based prints. Obama from Douglass exemplifies this new way of working. García has long used the diptych and triptych formats to invite viewers to ponder the relationship between images. This work features Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), the abolitionist and first high-ranking Black U.S. government official as U.S. Marshal of the District of Columbia and later the Ambassador to Haiti, and Barack Obama (b. 1961), the 44th president of the United States. Between them is a panel of animated abstract lines, suggesting the tumultuous and momentous history that separates, and connects, these two pioneering Black leaders in U.S. history.
Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2020.42.5 |