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- Aaron Douglas, artist
1899–1979
born: Topeka, Kansas, United States ; died: Nashville, Tennessee, United States ; active: United States
Langston Hughes, author
1902–1967
born: Joplin, Missouri, United States ; died: New York, New York, United States
Opportunity Magazine, publisher
- Weary As I Can Be, 1926
- Opportunity Art Folio
- Where object was made: United States
- relief print, letterpress
- Paper Type: lightweight blue wove
- Sheet/Paper Dimensions: 406 x 292 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions: 16 x 11 1/2 in
Frame Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 1 1/4 in
Weight: 6 lbs - Museum purchase: Helen Foresman Spencer Art Acquisition Fund, Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund, and Office of the Chancellor
- Not on display
- 2003.0012.02
- Aaron Douglas, artist
- Open page with bookmarkable url
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Image in top half of sheet, Langston Hughes poem “Lonesome Place” in the lower half. Image, all in deep blue, of a reclining man under a tree in a heavily abstracted style.