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1929
1929
Artist/Maker (American, born 1958)
Date2001
MediumNatural dyes and hand-stitching on found cotton tea towel
DimensionsOverall: 32 3/4 × 24 1/4 in. (83.2 × 61.6 cm) Frame: 41 1/2 × 32 × 2 3/8 in. (105.4 × 81.3 × 6 cm)
Credit LineGift of William and Carol Pollak
Object number2016.13
Not on view
DescriptionHarlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen's "Incident" (1925) describes the deep and lasting wounds racial slurs can leave on a person. In this poignant image, Hampton stitched the text of the poem across a hand-painted silhouette of her father as an infant. The text and images are imposed on a found tea towel that had been embroidered with "pickaninnies," long in use in this country as the pejorative caricature of African American children.
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Provenance 2016: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of William Pollak.
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