FILTER RESULTS
Marcus Garvey
197024 1/16 x 18 1/16 in. (61.1 x 45.9 cm)
Luvon Sheppard
United States
Object Type:
Drawing
Medium and Support:
Ink wash on paper
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1971.11
Location: Not currently on view
Now a professor of art at RIT, Luvon Sheppard was MAG’s coordinator of neighborhood services when he drew this portrait of the controversial Jamaican orator and activist. Marcus Garvey was perhaps best known for founding the Back-to-Africa movement, which called for a return of the African diaspora to its ancestral homelands. He famously feuded with W. E. B. DuBois, another activist and the first African American to graduate from Harvard, who described him unsympathetically as “a little, fat black man; ugly, but with intelligent eyes and a big head.”
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
Provenance
Haiti Environmental Black Gallery, Rochester NY; purchased from them by the Gallery in 1970
Keywords
Click a term to view the records with the same keyword
Additional Images
Click an image to view a larger version
Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Recent Acquisitions & Memorial Bequests 1/8/1975 - 2/23/1975
- Master Drawings from the Memorial Art Gallery Rochester Institute of Technology 10/9/1982 - 11/4/1982
- It Came from the Vault: Rarely Seen Works from MAG's Collection 3/17/2013 - 6/9/2013
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Master Drawings from the Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, 1982.
Portfolio List
Click a portfolio name to view all the objects in that portfolio
This object is a member of the following portfolios:
Web Links
See links to web pages and lesson plans
Frederick Douglass
MAG webpage with links to Frederick Douglass and African-American experience resources at MAG
It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue
Entry for this artwork in the It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue. The exhibition ran from March 17-June 9, 2013