Arbitration

William Gropper

About 1943

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Indian, Cheyenne, United States, watercolor on paper
This image is created with black ink on paper. It represents the partial façade of a building, which is cut off by the left and top edges of the sheet. A sidewalk moves into the scene from the foreground to the middle ground, with trees lining it on either side.
Night scene of black man bound to stake by chains, burned alive; to right, man stokes fire with pole; crowd of white onlookers surround the fire.
Puppeteer, Reginald Pollack, lithograph, with framing lines, on Arches paper