Resting on the Goalpost. Washington, D.C., June 1969, from the series Southern Roads/City Pavements
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Object Details
- Artist
- Roland L. Freeman, born Baltimore, MD 1936
- Exhibition Label
- Freeman has been on the streets since he was an eight-year-old who skipped school to ride the Baltimore trolleys. He worked with the arabbers, vendors who peddled ice, coal, and fresh produce from horse-drawn wagons, sold newspapers door-to-door, and joined a street gang. Concerned that back-alley life would lead to trouble, his mother sent him to live on a tobacco farm in southern Maryland. These experiences, and the people, he met, shaped the work of a man who in 2007 was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship and the Bess Lomax Hawes Award for a lifetime of artistic excellence and contributions to the nation’s traditional arts heritage.
- African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, 2012
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George H. Dalsheimer
- Copyright
- © 1969, Roland L. Freeman
- 1969, printed 1982
- Object number
- 1991.80.8
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
- Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 11 x 14 in. (28.0 x 35.6 cm.)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure group\male
- African American
- Landscape\District of Columbia\Washington
- Architecture\other\playground
- Record ID
- saam_1991.80.8
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7a1322c84-340b-4b87-bd73-16221047ca5c
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