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Legend of John Brown #8: John Brown's first thought of the place where he would make his attack came to him while surveying land for Oberlin College in West Virginia, 1840.
Legend of John Brown #8: John Brown's first thought of the place where he would make his attack came to him while surveying land for Oberlin College in West Virginia, 1840.
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Object number2008.15.8

Legend of John Brown #8: John Brown's first thought of the place where he would make his attack came to him while surveying land for Oberlin College in West Virginia, 1840.

Artist (American, 1917-2000)
Date1977
Mediumcolor screenprint
Dimensionsimage: 14 × 20 in. (35.6 × 50.8 cm)
sheet: 20 × 25 3/4 in. (50.8 × 65.4 cm)
mat: 24 × 30 in. (61 × 76.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor
Exhibition History"Embracing Diverse Voices: African-American Art in the Collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts," KIA Galleries 3&4 (Oct. 3 - Nov. 29, 2009). "Embracing Diverse Voices: 80 Years of African-American Art," KIA Traveling Exhibition, Bakersfield Museum of Art (Dec. 13, 2012 – Mar. 10, 2013). "Embracing Diverse Voices: 90 Years of African-American Art," KIA Traveling Exhibition, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX (January 17 - March 20, 2016). "Embracing Diverse Voices: A Century of African-American Art," KIA Traveling Exhibition, North Carolina Central University Art Museum (October 7 - December 12, 2016). "Resilience: African American Artists as Agents of Change," at the KIA (September 14, 2019 - February 16, 2020)