Swingtime
- Date
- 1937
- made in
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- plate: 5 9/16 × 6 7/8 in. (14.1 × 17.5 cm)
sheet: 9 15/16 × 9 13/16 in. (25.2 × 25 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of the Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 318:1943
NOTES
Dance, music, theater, writing, and visual arts all fed off each other at Karamu House, the foundational center of Black cultural life in Cleveland where Charles L. Sallée Jr. taught and worked. In making this print, he captured the energy of many of those art forms. In 1943, the pioneering Black art historian James A. Porter may as well have been describing this very composition when he called Sallée “a master of rhythm, so expert that the work is joyously animate. It is as though the artist found nothing but transporting gladness in life.”
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