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Holy Family
Holy Family
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Holy Family

Artist (American, 1921 – 2005)
Date1964
Mediumacrylic on masonite
Dimensions104.1 × 78.7 cm (41 × 31 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBlake Robinson Fund
Object number2019.46
Label TextHoly Family hauntingly portrays devotion and courage in the face of racial and social inequality. In 1963, Gammon joined Spiral, an African American artists’ collective whose members worked exclusively in black and white as a symbolic reference to the civil rights struggle in the United States. The title and subject allude to the Pietà, a visual tradition in Christian art history in which the Virgin Mary holds the dead body of Christ, her son. In so doing, Gammon draws a connection between the persecution of Christ and his followers and the plight of African Americans.
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