Magazine Street

Elizabeth O'Neill Verner

  • Titles Magazine Street (Proper)
  • Artist Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, American, 1883 - 1979
  • Medium etching
  • Dimensions sheet: 13 3/4 × 9 1/4 in. (34.9 × 23.5 cm) plate: 9 7/8 × 6 7/8 in. (25.1 × 17.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.720.1998
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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Composition is hard-edge geometric work with planes of white, red, blue, green, gray, and black. It is evident from the surface of the work that some of the forms have been reworked. The center of the canvas contains the most movement, with blue, white, and gray triangles of varying sizes painted as if falling towards the ground. Painting is signed "M Pusey" on the lower left recto in rectangle of green paint. Verso has brown rectangle with Pusey's handwriting "Title-Dejygea" on top; "MEDIUM - OIL" in middle, and '"SIZE - 60" x 70"' on bottom.
Black and white press print of a large crowd congregated in what appears to be a field at nighttime. Some wear KKK hoods and outfits, others are dressed in suits. An American flag hangs from a flag pole on the left side. Two Klansmen seem to be on a raised platform in the center of the crowd (not facing the camera).
This gelatin silver print shows a street view of New Orleans. The image is centered on a jazz musician who is playing his saxophone. Around him people are seen walking down the street heading in both directions. A laundromat and bar are in view on the left side of the street.
In this black and white photograph, a smiling African American man wearing a suit and tie sits, holding the comics section of a newspaper between his knees. There is a long diagonal crease that moves into the image from the upper left corner, and there is intermittent pink-red spotting on the left half of the image.