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The Trickster on His Throne, with Henchmen
Renée Stout, (Junction City, KS, 1958 - )
Stout, Renée
United States
1958
Female
30 1/8 x 22 7/16 in. (76.5 x 57 cm)
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A one run lithograph printed in deep sepia ink. Image was drawn on mylar by the artist using stabilo pencils and lithographic pencils.
1996
1996
1996
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Renée Stout’s art incorporates mystical beings and experiences, like the African trickster deity represented here by the mound of dirt under the cross. For Stout, the cross or crossroads is the juncture of earth and spirit worlds, a place to seek aid from her ancestors in her life choices.
She describes 1930s Delta blues singer Robert Johnson as her kindred spirit. He attributed his musical genius to a legendary pact with the devil at a crossroads. Stout states, “Johnson was driven to sing just as I am compelled to make art.”
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.”
[Gallery label text 2012]
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1997.1.9
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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