Winged Mechanical Figure

Ben Smith

1970

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Black and white image of African American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan from the waist up. She is wearing a light dress with flowers on it. Her eyes are closed and she gestures with her hands as she sings.
Hand-carved wooden frame in the so-called "whirlwind" pattern. According to Virginia Couse Leavitt, the artist's granddaughter, his earliest frame design "incorporates a scroll (whirlwind) at the center of each side, from which a barbed feather motif extends to the corners."
This black and white photograph shows an African American man (Martin Luther King, Jr.) preaching from the pulpit of a church beneath a rounded arch and a cross.
Meadow Wind, Charles Bowling, lithograph