Blind singer – Vintage Print
![Blind singer, [1939 or 1940] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ff/ffc929ba21b4-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Blind singer, preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Blind singer
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A blind singer, rendered in color, stands at the center of this silkscreen, set apart from the group scenes of street musicians that share its series. The print dates to about 1939 or 1940 and comes from the William H. Johnson designs that the Harmon Foundation issued in 1971. Street performers like this one were a familiar sight in city neighborhoods during the Depression, when singing or playing for coins was one of the few ways to earn a living. Johnson, an African American painter working in New York at the time, returned often to the everyday life of Black communities, and this print shows how he treated music as a central part of that street culture.
| Created / published | [1939 or 1940] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | 1971. From Harmon Foundation Inc. |
| Notes | No. FO-156 (7). Similar image titled Street Musicians" and dated 1939-1940. Illustrated in: William H. Johnson |
| Subjects | Street musicians--1930-1940. African Americans--Music--1930-1940. Blind persons--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,688 × 2,129 px · prints to 6 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215930 |
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