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Go Down Death, 1934 (oil on masonite)

IMAGE number
CVL500345
Image title
Go Down Death, 1934 (oil on masonite)
Artist
Douglas, Aaron (1899-1979) / American
Location
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA
Medium
oil on masonite
Date
1934 AD (C20th AD)
Dimensions
124.46x93.98 (framed) 121.9x91.5 (unframed) cms
Image description

Douglas is widely credited to have been the first African American artist to adopt an avant-garde style. This painting is based upon an illustration he made for God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927), a book by noted author and civil rights advocate James Weldon Johnson. Its subject tells the story of a winged angel of death who races through the heavens on horseback to rescue a woman from a life of suffering. Perhaps underscoring the theme of deliverance is the single star placed prominently in the composition, which according to some scholars symbolizes the North Star that guided fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad.

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Photo © Cleveland Museum of Art / John L. Severance Fund and Gift of Prof. and Mrs. David C. Driskell / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
20th century / angel / horse / animal / Avant Garde / wings / shapes / star / purple / rider / white / death / riding / avant-garde / pastels / blue / Horse / painting / Mzpainting
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