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Glad You Dead You Rascal You

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This carving by Herbert Singleton shows a New Orleans jazz funeral, with mourners walking slowly behind the procession and musicians dancing ahead (Lynda Hartigan, African American Art: Recent Acquisitions, 1999/2000). Many of Singleton’s paintings depict African American life in New Orleans, emphasizing the city’s problems with drugs, shootings, and prostitution. The title of this piece is a line adapted from the 1929 song written by jazz musician Sam Theard and made famous by Louis Armstrong.
Type:
Physical Object
Format:
Painted Cypress
Rights:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. African American
  2. African Americans
  3. Ceremony
  4. Ethnic
  5. Ethnicity
  6. Figure Group
  7. Funeral
  8. Rites And Ceremonies
  9. Singleton, Herbert

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