Friends

Title

Friends

Date

1942

Creator

Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs, 1915-2010 See all items with this value

Contributor

Atlanta Annuals

Description

Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs was an artist, historian, teacher, and writer from St. Rose, LA. Friends is a print depicting an interracial friendship. Two girls, one black and the other white, are sitting on a loveseat in front of a patterned curtain. This radical image of race relations was created during the height of the Jim Crow era.

Primary Subject

1900-1999 See all items with this value

Race relations See all items with this value

Art See all items with this value

Additional Subject

Desegregation

Racial uplift

Fashion

Black Art

Location

Atlanta

Fulton County

Georgia

USA

Type

Print

Medium

Lithograph

Measurements

14.875 in. x 9in.

Format

JPEG

HBCU Identifier

1945.011

HCAC Identifier

HCAC.CAU.031

Rights

All rights held by the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Clark Atlanta University, (404) 880-6102 Attn: Museum Director.

Contributing Institution

Clark Atlanta University

Source

Clark Atlanta University Art Museum

Collection

Atlanta Art Annuals See all items with this value

Language

English

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