John X
By
Adam Grose
2020
- Drawing and Illustration
- Painting
- Abstract & Conceptual
- Drawing
- Painting
- Black Lives Matter
- Slavery
- America
- Poetry
- Project
- Studio Practice
Dimensions
10 x 16
JOHN X
Freed American slave of
‘Pale children of the feeble sun’
Thomas Chatterton
‘America, it is to thee,
Thou boasted land of liberty,
It is to thee I raise my song,
Thou land of blood, and crime, and wrong.
It is to thee, my native land,
From whence has issued many a band
To tear the black man [woman and child] from his soil,
And force [them] here to delve and toil;’
James Monroe Whitfield
‘America’
Watercolour and Oil Paint on
Watercolour Paper
Dec 2019
Adam R. Grose
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