Dr. Denise M. Murrell, curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gestures toward Aaron Douglas’s 1934 mural, Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery through Reconstruction, as she leads a tour of the Harlem Renaissance exhibition.

Dr. Denise M. Murrell, curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gestures toward Aaron Douglas’s 1934 mural, Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery through Reconstruction, as she leads a tour of the Harlem Renaissance exhibition.

I Tomahawk in piedi vicino a una staccionata e a un edificio in mattoncini. Sono fotografati dal basso in alto, ognuno guarda il suo punto dello spazio di fronte a sé. Mike Patton, il secondo da sinistra, ha una sigaretta in bocca e tiene il labbro inferiore leggermente rialzato, come se stesse facendo una faccia scema; Trevero Dunn, accanto a lui sulla destra, ha le braccia conserte e sta facendo una smorfia con la bocca. Gli altri due sembrano più normali.

I Tomahawk in piedi vicino a una staccionata e a un edificio in mattoncini. Sono fotografati dal basso in alto, ognuno guarda il suo punto dello spazio di fronte a sé. Mike Patton, il secondo da sinistra, ha una sigaretta in bocca e tiene il labbro inferiore leggermente rialzato, come se stesse facendo una faccia scema; Trevero Dunn, accanto a lui sulla destra, ha le braccia conserte e sta facendo una smorfia con la bocca. Gli altri due sembrano più normali.

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