The Ragmud Series: Volume 2, Growin' Up on Thorn
Artist: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (American, 1940 - 2015)
Date: 1987-2008
Dimensions:
Book (Closed): H: 19 in. (48.3 cm); W: 11 in. (27.9 cm); Depth: 10 in. (25.4 cm);
Cover: H: 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm); W: 10 in. (25.4 cm);
Page: H: 13 in. (33 cm); W: 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)
Medium: Book and case; mixed media.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds given by Rita B. Kern and Dorothy Mackenzie Price, with additional support from the artist and Hammond Harkins Gallery, and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Levis, by exchange
Object number: 2008.18A-D
Label Text:Growin’ Up on Thorn contains Robinson’s recording in words and images of oral history from her Uncle Alvin about her family and community, including tales from Africa and Uncle Alvin’s “hand-me-down” stories, which, like Aesop’s fables, impart important life lessons within engaging and lively narratives.
The cloth wrapping for this volume contains a pocket for a remarkable beaded doll. The doll represents a tightrope walker from Robinson’s Sellsville Series of stories and images. Sellsville was the winter home in the Columbus area (where Ohio State’s campus is now) of the traveling Sells Brothers Circus, which Robinson cites as an example of racial integration in the late 19th century. For example all the children in Sellsville, no matter what race, went to school together—it was called the “Polkadot Schoolhouse.”
The cloth wrapping for this volume contains a pocket for a remarkable beaded doll. The doll represents a tightrope walker from Robinson’s Sellsville Series of stories and images. Sellsville was the winter home in the Columbus area (where Ohio State’s campus is now) of the traveling Sells Brothers Circus, which Robinson cites as an example of racial integration in the late 19th century. For example all the children in Sellsville, no matter what race, went to school together—it was called the “Polkadot Schoolhouse.”
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