Dissipation
Item
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Title
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Dissipation
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Date
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1950-1951
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Description
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Panel Three of The Art of the Negro Mural Series
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Abstract
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Dissipation dramatizes the colonization and subjugation of Africa by European cultures with specific reference to the British militia that burned Benin to the ground in 1897 and the looting of all its art— still being contested by Nigerian authorities today.
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Medium
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Oil on canvas
144 x 144 inches
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Creator
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Hale A. Woodruff
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Rights
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Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
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Is Part Of
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The Art of the Negro Mural Series
Dissipation, Panel Three