Rashid Johnson, Self-Portrait with my hair parted like Frederick Douglass, 2003
Images of Rashid Johnson, Self-Portrait with my hair parted like Frederick Douglass
Self-Portrait with my hair parted like Frederick Douglass, 2003
Lambda print mounted on Sintra
45 3/16 × 57 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (114.8 × 145.4 × 3.8 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of the Susan and Lewis Manilow Collection of Chicago Artists, 2006.26
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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Rashid Johnson, The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Marcus), 2010 - Long The masculine person, shown from the torso up, is wearing a vertically striped button-down shirt, a herringbone vest, and a dark tie. The subject takes up the majority of the image, with their shoulders extending to either of the vertical edges. The two superimposed faces, slightly overlapping, have a similarly stoic expression. Both of the faces have heavy, dark eyebrows, a wide rounded nose, a closed, expressionless mouth, and are crowned by a dark, curly afro hair style. The upper left and bottom corners all appear lighter in tone, as if overexposed. Surrounding the figure are lush, palm-like plant fronds, both in the background and foreground. Some of the fronds obscure the person's shoulders on both sides of the image.
