- Artist/Maker:
- Rosalie Gwathmey
- Bio:
- American, 1908-2001
- Title:
- Shout Freedom, Charlotte, North Carolina
- Date:
- c. 1948
- Medium:
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions:
- 8 1/2 × 7 in. (21.6 × 17.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Gay Block and Malka Drucker Fund of the Houston Jewish Community Foundation
- Accession Number:
- 2008-64
- Copyright:
- © Estate of Rosalie Gwathmey/Licensed by _VAGA_, New York, NY
Not On View
Shout Freedom! was a celebratory musical about the American Revolution. Gwathmey captures the irony of the advertisement for black citizens in the Jim Crow South. She herself was familiar with civil-rights problems; her husband, the painter Robert Gwathmey, was subjected to surveillance and harassment by the FBI for his political activism. The blacklisting of the League in 1951 was the last straw: she destroyed many of her negatives and stopped making photographs.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.