The Power of Music (Q16708949)
Label from: English (en)
artist:
William Sidney Mount (Q45431)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location of final assembly:
United States of America (Q30)
depicts:
music (Q638)
musician (Q639669)
fiddle (Q510487)
fiddler (Q3560496)
African Americans (Q49085)
laborer (Q12713481)
barn (Q1303167)
doorway (Q21263223)
axe (Q39397)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.110
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: Set in rural Long Island before the Civil War, Mount's complex painting presents an African American laborer listening intently to a fiddle tune enjoyed by white men. While a love of music unites the figures in a bond of shared humanity, the two races occupy different spaces--one inside, one outside, both separated by a barn door--effectively symbolizing the pronounced divisions in America at the time.
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