One gouache drawing by Aaron Douglas created to illustrate "The Prodigal Son" in God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, by James Weldon Johnson (New York: Viking Press, 1927). The illustration features silhouettes of a man and two women grouped under a single overhead light, and framed by graphic representations of jazz-age vices such as a dollar bill, playing cards, dice, and a gin bottle, as well as jazz trombones, jutting in from the outside edges. It is one of eight illustrations by Douglas for the volume.
Alternative Title:
The Prodigal Son
Description:
Aaron Douglas, American painter and illustrator active in the Harlem Renaissance; he was born in 1899 in Topeka, Kansas, and died in 1979 in Nashville, Tennessee., Gift of Grace Nail Johnson, 1966., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Douglas, Aaron and Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.--God's Trombones--Illustrations
Subject (Topic):
Illustration of books--United States and Illustrators--United States
Metagraphic collage portrait of Michèle Bernstein created in 1963. The work has an inscribed title, "Les nopals il ñ'y a pas d'âge," in the image, and includes a drawn portrait of Bernstein made with gouache, pastel, pencil, and ink, as well as collage material consisting of textual and pictorial clippings from newspapers and magazines.
Description:
Inscription and clippings in French., Ivan Chtcheglov (1933-1998) was a French political theorist, activist, and poet. His work, Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau (1953), written under the pseudonym Gilles Ivain, inspired the Lettrist International and Situationist International., Metagraphics, also called hypergraphy and hypergraphics, an artistic technique combining text and graphic arts, was used in Lettrist works., Michèle Bernstein (born 1932) is a French novelist and critic. She was a member of the Situationist International from its founding in 1957 until 1967., Purchased from Librairie du Sandre on the Edith and Richard French Fund, 2017., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Bernstein, Michèle,--Portraits. and Chtcheglov, Ivan.
A portrait of the English poet Alexander Pope by Jonathan Richardson the Elder, with Pope portrayed seated and supporting an open book with his proper left hand. The painting is oil on canvas, inscribed "POPE" at the lower left corner.
Alternative Title:
Alexander Pope resting on an open book and Alexander Pope, full-length, seated, his left hand resting on
an open book
Description:
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet., Gift of Joan Pittman Schnabel Rea, 1964., Jonathan Richardson (1665-1745), English artist., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744 and Richardson, Jonathan,--1665-1745
Subject (Topic):
Artists--Great Britain and Authors, English--18th century--Portraits
