Sky Followers

José Guerrero

1956

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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. 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 right side of the composition.
Landscape, Trees in Foreground, Buildings in Background, Lucille Douglass, pastel
Composition with black and white vertical lines, a red square upper right, and white square lower right.
Along with companion work, studies for stained glass windows set in doors. The first panel [AFI293.2010] is embellished with a female figure, classical busts, and floral motifs, flanked by Corinthian columns; the second panel [AFI293.2010] is decorated with a classical fountain, shield, and winged head, perhaps the god Mercury.