One Hundred Years Ago – First Waltz

Will Crawford

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The center of the work is a mix of black and orange brushstrokes, a piece of red-painted newspaper, and a green and black-painted piece of paper that has been adhered to the paper. On both sides of the black center are areas of white with some hints of light blue paint on the right. There is a large piece of newspaper painted lavender in the lower right part of the paper and a blue-green triangle of cut newspaper on the left-hand side. The upper half of the paper has several rectangles of color, including areas of pink, black, white, orange, and blue.
This painting represents the back of a woman with bobbed, dark hair wearing a light blue shirt tucked into a white skirt. She stands with straight knees, leaning her weight onto her left leg, holding papers under her left arm and a cigarette in her right hand. She looks at an artwork hung on a wall that appears to be a painting. Standing in a gallery with light blue walls, she is surrounded by three paintings and two sculptures on pedestals.
An African American man wearing a jacket with tails and large epaulettes, white gloves, white riding pants, and black boots stands in a hallway leaning on a cane in this black and white photograph. Further down the hallway, another figure can be seen sitting in a chair, with elements of costume hanging around him. A partial poster, peeling from the wall, is seen closer to the viewer than the figure, cut off by the right edge of the photograph.
Mining Scene, Unidentified artist, Birmingham, Alabama, linocut