Mississippi 1964: Landscape

Mississippi 1964: Landscape

Mississippi 1964: A View of White Ruleville from Black Ruleville


Tracy Sugarman (created by)
1996 (Date published)
Offset lithograph on paper
17 1/2 inches H X 21 3/4 inches W
Offset lithograph on paper. Westport artist Tracy Sugarman made over 100 pen-and-ink drawings from his experience during the Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi, many in turn executed after photographs he took during in 1964 and 1965. They demonstrate Sugarman's characteristic lively and spontaneous penwork, evocative ink wash technique, and focused compositions, effectively conveying the indelible moments, people, and places he encountered. In 1968, Sugarman donated his original civil rights-era drawings and photographs to Tougaloo College in Jackson MS, which published a selection as lithographs in a 1996 portfolio. This print, and five other works in the WestPAC collection, form part of that portfolio.

Sugarman and other 1964 Freedom Summer volunteers lived in the Black section of segregated Ruleville MS, represented by the viewer's position in this landscape sketch, with the white part of town depicted in the distance.
 
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