The Power of Music
1847
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.4 × 53.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-109007
Set in rural Long Island before the Civil War, Mount's complex painting presents an African American laborer listening intently to a fiddle tune enjoyed by white men. While a love of music unites the figures in a bond of shared humanity, the two races occupy different spaces--one inside, one outside, both separated by a barn door--effectively symbolizing the pronounced divisions in America at the time.
Provenance
Fund, 1991.110
Registry history
- 1847 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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