Aaron Douglas painted The Judgment Day in 1939, more than a decade after creating the book illustration on which the painting is based. In 1927 Douglas had provided eight strikingly original illustrations for a collection of poems titled God’s Trombones:
artistic calling, with DuBois describing his images as daring, unconventional, and “wild
How contemporary artists working in El Paso and Juárez counter mainstream narratives of the region.
the Mexican Border, made by photographer Ed Erwin between 1920 and 1929, shows a wild
the dog is momentarily neglecting its domestic allegiances for the call of the wild
, in NGA curatorial files discusses a 1922 treatment that was begun by Louis de Wild
the enormous locust in the hand of the child reminds us of the diet—locusts and wild
It had last been treated in 1933 by Louis de Wild. [41] Arthur K.
The painting had been treated previously in 1933, probably by Louis de Wild, and
Rebecca (“Beck”) Salsbury (1891–1968) The daughter of the manager of Buffalo Bill’s Wild
for the beautiful young huntsman Adonis, and of how he was tragically killed by a wild
Orphée depicts many tragedies, but songwriter Dom Flemons finds the joy in it: it resolves in the beautiful scene of two lovers embracing. Flemons pairs it with the tranquil Blue Butterfly. The instrumental song helps the emotional weight sink in.
art, there’s an abstract quality that also allows for the imagination to just run wild
