Cleavage

Cleavage

Progression of aging black and white boys.

The subject of this lithograph is a series of scenes in which a white child or adult is interacting with a black child or adult. The top of the image depicts two young boys, one black and one white, lying next to each other in the grass, looking at a flower. Below them the two boys, one black and one white, are both barefoot and wearing overalls, playing horseshoes together. On the right, an older black woman in a floral dress and sun hat is holding a small white child, both wearing smiles. At the center, two boys are standing across from each other, one white and one black. The white boy is dressed in a uniform, with a hat and shoes, while the black boy is in overalls and barefoot. They are staring warily at one another across the divide. In the foreground, a wooden post fence splits the image, with a white man on a horse to the viewer's right and a black man in overalls on the viewer's right. They are staring at each other, unsmiling, across the fence.

Carroll Cloar

University Center, University of Memphis

Art Museum of the University of Memphis

1940

Rachel Wilson

Lithograph, 10-1/8 x 16-1/16"

American

2012.004.014