Robert A. PruittStati Uniti
Rage Against Machine
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Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Stati Uniti
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- Verificato
- 9 ore fa
- Ultimo cambio di stato
- 19 ago 2026
- Fonte
- I dati di collezione del museo stesso
Sull’opera
In this drawing Robert Pruitt depicts a woman dressed in costume from the 19th century, when slavery still flourished, but with contemporary tennis shoes peeking out from underneath her dress. She holds a long-handled hammer, a reference to the freed slave John Henry, who worked as a steel driver and became a legend when he won a race against a steam-powered hammer during the 1870s. In the same way that Henry overcame a machine, Pruitt's heroic figure suggests the destruction of a corrupt and inequitable system.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- 2009.85
In catalogo
Fonti
- Cleveland Museum of Art: the museum's own open data · acquisita 6 giorni fa
- Immagine: Cleveland Museum of Art — © Robert A Pruitt
