| Maker(s): | Ringgold, Faith | | Culture: | American (1930 - 2024)
| | Title: | Here Come Moses
| | Date Made: | 2014
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | Screenprint in color on medium thick, slightly textured, white Rives BFK paper
| | Measurements: | sheet: 22 1/2 in x 30 1/16 in; 57.1 cm x 76.4 cm; image: 17 7/8 in x 23 7/8 in; 45.4 cm x 60.6 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | signature: Faith Ringgold 7/31/2014, edition: 180/200, title: Here Come Moses, inscription: Here Come Moses Aunt Emmy said he'd find us one day. That boy came North to Freedom in a storm. He lost/his mother and father on the way. "They'll never find me in this storm, but we will all find Freedom, God wiling. We were born to be free. I will never give up" said Moses. Moses was only twelve years old/when he came to Jones Road on Thanksgiving Day in 1793. by faith Ringoold (c)2014
| | Accession Number: | SC 2016.34.10
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Janice Carlson Oresman, class of 1955
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Currently on view |
Description:
Landscape of green, yellow, orange, and red trees with a cabin visible in background with a red, white, and blue banner on the roof reading "fREEDOM"; figure walking toward cabin on a path just left of center
Tags:
autumn; civil rights; human rights; landscapes; men; narrative; exterior; race; slavery Subjects:
screen prints; Slavery; Landscapes; exterior; Civil rights; Narrative art; Men Link to share this object record:
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