Margaret Walker with Elizabeth Catlett bust of Phillis Wheatley

Item

Margaret Walker with Phillis Wheatley Bust
Title
Margaret Walker with Elizabeth Catlett bust of Phillis Wheatley
Description
Margaret Walker commissioned Elizabeth Catlett to create a bronze bust of Phillis Wheatley based on the Scipio Moorhead engraving of Phillis Wheatley. The bust was unveiled during the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival.
Phillis Wheatley after Scipio Moorhead
Phillis Wheatley Bronze bust
Creator
Roy Lewis, Photographer
name
Elizabeth Catlett, Phillis Wheatley, Scipio Moorhead
Source
Margaret Walker Papers, Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
Date Created
11-1973
Subject
african americans in literature, slavery, women poets
Item sets
1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival Photograph Collection
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