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Untitled (Cadmium), 1984
Oil, oil stick, acrylic on canvas

Purchase in honor of Lynne Browne, President of the
Members Guild, 1992-1993, with funds from Alfred
Austell Thornton in memory of Leila Austell Thornton
and Albert Edward Thornton, Sr., and Sarah Miller
Venable and William Hoyt Venable, 1993.3

Jean-Michel Basquiat, an African American who
began as a graffiti artist, gained recognition for
his expressive paintings. Here, the mutilated black
man suggests the horrors of oppression. The Sacred
Heart is a traditional Catholic symbol of suffering
and transcendence.