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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Robert Colescott: Art and Race Matters

Sept 20, 2019 – Jan 12, 2020
44 E 6th St, Cincinnati, OH 45202, United States

“Most artists who appropriate do it as some sort of homage to an artist they admire,” the late artist Robert Colescott told the New Orleans Times-Picayune. “Mine was no homage. I wanted to dominate the other artist.” A career-spanning survey containing 85 works by Colescott explores his core themes of race and political satire, and includes his well-known painting George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware, a burlesque of Emanuel Leutze’s 1851 work. —J.V.