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Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
The Slave
Photography by Edward C. Robison III.

The Slave

Artist (1938 - 1997)
Date1994
MediumCarved and painted wood bas relief
Dimensions22 3/4 × 36 in. (57.8 × 91.4 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, Gift of Gordon W. Bailey and Museum purchase, 2018.27
Signedrecto, l.r.: LH verso c.: by Leroy Almon Sr LA 1994
Accession number 2018.27
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceEstate of the Artist; to Gordon W. Bailey, Los Angeles, CA; purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2018
Label TextLeroy Almon addressed life, faith, and racism through his carvings, calling attention to the systems that motivated US participation in the transatlantic slave trade. In the 1980s, Almon returned to his birthplace of Tallapoosa (a city in Haralson County, Georgia). In The Slave, he depicts a plantation and an auction of enslaved people, all beneath the watchful eye of God.

Leroy Almon abordó los temas de la vida, la fe y el racismo mediante sus piezas talladas, llamando la atención sobre los sistemas que motivaron la participación de Estados Unidos en la trata trasatlántica de personas esclavizadas. En la década de 1980, Almon regresó a su lugar de nacimiento, Tallapoosa (una ciudad del condado de Haralson, Georgia). En El esclavo, representa una plantación y una subasta de personas esclavizadas, todo ello bajo la atenta mirada de Dios.

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