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Robert Colescott
American, born 1925

Corn Rose, 1990
Acrylic on canvas

Purchase with funds from the National Endowment
for the Arts and Edith G. and Phillip A. Rhodes, 1990.19

Robert Colescott addresses cultural stereotypes about African
Americans through the use of verbal and visual humor. The
title of this work is a pun on rose/rows, and a dual reference to
agriculture supported by slave labor and to the hairstyle worn
by the woman in the center of the painting.