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Refugee child / William H. Johnson. – Historic Print

Refugee child / William H. Johnson., [193-] — historic print
Refugee child / William H. Johnson., [193-]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Refugee child / William H. Johnson.

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A woodcut by William H. Johnson, *Refugee Child* shows a young girl as a displaced person, a subject that was pressing in the 1930s, when political upheaval uprooted large numbers of people across Europe. Johnson, an African American painter, spent much of that decade working in Scandinavia and Europe, and this print reflects his attention to the human cost of those years. The Harmon Foundation, a New York organization founded in 1922 to promote African American artists, is credited as the source. The hand coloring added to the black-and-white woodcut is worth noticing, since it sets off the child's figure against the stark lines of the printed block.

Created / published[193-]
Medium1 print : woodcut, hand-colored.
NotesTitle from item. Signed in pencil on verso. Annotated: NOR-329A-2." From Harmon Foundation
SubjectsRefugees--1930-1940. Girls--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,046 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-224766

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