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Exhibition Review
Elijah Pierce’s America
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 175-177
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Reviewer:
Rhodes, Colin (Rhodes, Colin)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Pierce, Elijah
museums and institutions:
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, United States
subjects:
African Americans / American art / Folk art / Carvings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Elijah Pierce’s America Edited by Nancy Ireson and Zoé Whitley. 208 pp. incl. 120 col. ills. (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and Paul Holberton, London, 2020), £40. ISBN 978–1–911300–87–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Three ways to send a message: telephone, telegram, tella- woman, by Elijah Pierce. c.1941. Carved and painted wood, 39.4 by 45.7 by 3.8 cm. (High Museum of Art, Atlanta; exh. Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
Attributed works:
23. Nixon being driven from the White House, by Elijah Pierce. 1975. Carved and painted wood and beads, 36.8 by 74.3 cm. (Private collection; exh. Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
Attributed works:
24. The Power of prayer, by Elijah Pierce. 1960. Carved and painted wood and glitter, 103.1 by 49.8 cm. (Museum of Everything, London; exh. Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).