Oxford, Mississippi

Charles Moore

1962; printed later

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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.
This painting represents stand of narrow-shafted trees, scattered throughout the foreground and shown receding off to the right of the middle ground. A stream is also shown in the middle ground, running over a rocky outcropping. The background represents additional trees in green and yellow, and possibly a mountain ridge extending above the treetops. The main colors of the painting are yellow, orange, and green.
A black and white photograph featuring overlapping opaque and translucent scissors of various sizes. The scissors appear in an x-ray or negative manner, with no visual depth. There are also some translucent dark gray rectangular objects overlapping the open scissors. The photograph is mounted on a 1/8" thick brown mounting board.
Female Half Figure, Lucille Douglass, charcoal