Anthropomorphic Deity

Nancy Hemenway Barton

about 1973

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A heavily worked ink drawing of the head and shoulders of a black man, against a white ground. The figure’s skin is rendered with striated (inkless) passages that suggest musculature or keyloidal scarring. The ink is so densely applied in parts that the paper takes on a burnished sheen.
A brown and off-white (the paper) composition that intermingles abstraction and floral and faunal imagery. A range of printing techniques were employed, producing a variety of stylistic looks - fine lines, brush work, etc.
Untitled (The Artist's House), Reverend Benjamin Franklin Perkins, acrylic on canvas
Hubcaps and Fence, near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1990, William Christenberry, chromogenic print