Cotton Roses from the collection of Miriam McClung

Cotton Roses, 2016

Oil on Linen Canvas

40 x 30 x 0.75 in

Inv: 100-MM

$3,800

Available

This still life explores the connections between history, race, and personal experience.

The Confederate or Cotton Roses represent the Old and New South, a mixture of its painful past and present racial realities.

The ironed white linen shirt symbolizes Miriam's personal and family connection to one facet of the quest for Black Americans to gain complete and equitable recognition within American society.

The Scripture on the paper taken from Psalm 19:12, the ruler, and the photo of her grandsons looking on wondering how they would measure and number the past to inform the present.

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