Jungle (Black)

Tobias Schneebaum

About 1960

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This image is created with black ink on paper. This print represents a street corner and a view down a street toward Birmingham’s downtown skyline, with the City Federal building seen in the distance. On the corner stands a corner store with signs for Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale, Coca Cola, and Nehi sodas. These signs are all reversed. Down the left side of the street runs a group of buildings, including a café, a two story building, and a church. A power line stands in front of the corner store and runs down the streets on either side of the corner. There is a large, leafy tree at the left side of the composition.
Two black birds on the left stand on a hollow gourd that hangs from a tree branch. Two birds on the right, characterized by gray, blue, and white feathers with a spotted chest, stand on the branches of the tree.
This black and white print represents a nude man with a beard and chest hair. His hands are chained, and he is using extreme strength to break two pillars (likely the two pillars of the Temple of Dagon, where the biblical figure of Samson dies).
West Beach, Merritt Mauzey, lithograph