The Ragmud Series: Volume 2, Growin' Up on Thorn

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The Ragmud Series: Volume 2, Growin' Up on Thorn

Artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (American, 1940 - 2015)

Date1987-2008

DimensionsBook (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)

MediumBook and case; mixed media.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineMuseum 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

Not on View

Label TextGrowin’ 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.”Published ReferencesThe Ragmud Collection: Books by Aminah Robinson, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2010.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Aminah Robinson: Voices that Taught Me How to Sing, Nov. 19, 2010-Feb. 27, 2011.

Toledo Museum of Art, Insight: Contemporary Senstory Works, Nov. 5, 2014-Jan. 4, 2015.