The Ragmud Series: Volume 9, Everyday: Pages in History

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The Ragmud Series: Volume 9, Everyday: Pages in History

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

Date1987-2008

DimensionsH: 13 1/2 in .(34.3 cm); W: 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm); Depth: 3 in. (7.6 cm)

MediumBook: 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

2009.5A-C

Not on View

Label TextGlimpses of signal moments in African American life and history, including the evolution of laws created after the Civil War to disenfranchise black voters. Robinson particularly notes the history of these laws in her native Ohio (something of which many contemporary Ohioans may be unaware), and the continuing struggle to retain and assert voting rights. The apex of that effort in The Ragmud Collection is Robinson’s documentation of Barack Obama’s election to the American presidency in the fall of 2008. Coincidently, this historic moment occurred just weeks before she delivered the final volume to the Museum, and she was able to slip it in Volume 9 before she completed the book.Exhibition History

Toledo Museum of Art, Aminah Robinson: Voices that Taught Me How to Sing, November 19, 2010-February 27, 2011.

Toledo Museum of Art, People Get Ready: 50 Years of Civil Rights, Jun. 27-Sept. 21, 2014.