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I Can't Dance
Robert Colescott, 1925 - 2009
Colescott, Robert
United States
1925 - 2009
Male
30 3/16 x 22 7/16 in. (76.7 x 57 cm)
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A one run lithograph printed from an aluminum plate. The mylar was drawn by the artist using lithographic pencils, stabilo pencils, tusche water wash, and solvent asphaltum wash. The image was printed on Arches buff paper in deep sepia colored ink.
1996
1996
1996
Images of Black People
Print
Colescott uses satire and wit to deal with issues that concern him in our multicultural society. He explains that his works on paper “are often the sandbox for ideas that are off the track and something that I may do in paintings.” Here, the artist pokes fun at the cultural stereotype that African Americans are good dancers.
In 1997, at the age of seventy-one, Colescott became the first African-American artist to represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale, the oldest and most renowned contemporary art festival in the world.
This is one of eight lithographs by pre-eminent African American artists included in the Resounding Heart Portfolio “to document the historical and evolutionary journey of the Black experience.”
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1997.1.6
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
97.1.6SL1
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97.1.6DI#2
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5/16/2011
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