Self Portrait - Confronted Age, 16 · HCAC Digital Archive

Title: Self Portrait - Confronted Age, 16
Date: 1949
Creator: Cecil D. Nelson Jr., 1920- See all items with this value
Contributor: Atlanta Annuals
Description: Cecil D Nelson Jr. was a painter born in Champaign, IL. Self Portrait - Confronted Age, 16 depicts a Black male teenager haunted by racial violence. He sits in a chair holding a paintbrush with his hand on his head, wearing a shirt with a target symbol. There is also a rope, mask, and torn newspaper with the headline “lynch.”
Primary Subject: 1900-1999 See all items with this value; Art See all items with this value; Racism See all items with this value; Race relations See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Lynching; Racial violence; Memory
Location: Atlanta; Fulton County; Georgia; USA
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Measurements: 42 in. x 20 in.
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: 1949.002
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.CAU.066
Rights: All rights held by the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Clark Atlanta University, (404) 880-6102 Attn: Museum Director.
Contributing Institution: Clark Atlanta University
Source: Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
Collection: Atlanta Art Annuals See all items with this value
Language: English

Item sets: Art; HBCU Art: No Less Lovely Being Dark; Portraits and Busts in the Atlanta University Annuals Collection; Clark Atlanta University Collections