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Sherman Beck USA, b. 1942

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Sherman Beck, Portrait of Frederick Douglass, 2010
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Sherman Beck, Portrait of Frederick Douglass, 2010
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Sherman Beck, Portrait of Frederick Douglass, 2010

Sherman Beck USA, b. 1942

Portrait of Frederick Douglass, 2010
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.6 cm
7027

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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Sherman Beck, Untitled, 2022
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Sherman Beck, Untitled, 2022
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Sherman Beck, Untitled, 2022
Sherman Beck employs the genre of portraiture as a way to memorialize African American heroes. Here, he depicts a serious and stern faced image of Frederick Douglass, national abolitionist leader,...
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Sherman Beck employs the genre of portraiture as a way to memorialize African American heroes. Here, he depicts a serious and stern faced image of Frederick Douglass, national abolitionist leader, orator, writer, and social reformer. “I liked doing the research on Fredrick Douglas,” says Beck. This portrait pays homage to the fierce look of determination Douglas wears in virtually all of the photographs and paintings of him that exist in the public record. The background on which Douglas’s face appears is reminiscent of the background Beck utilizes for the works in his Mask series. The stacking of angular geometric forms lends itself to pareidolia, or the impression that faces are visible where they do not actually exist.
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