id: 159018 accession number: 1995.225 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.225 updated: 2020-11-04 21:42:47.044000 Frederick Douglass, 1951. Charles White (American, 1918-1979). Lithograph; The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1995.225 title: Frederick Douglass title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1951 creation date earliest: 1951 creation date latest: 1951 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Charles White (American, 1918-1979) - artist * Robert Blackburn (American, 1920-2003) - printer --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints opening date: 2000-09-17T00:00:00 From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 17 - November 26, 2000. "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: In addition to his work as an abolitionist, Frederick Douglass also supported women's rights and attended a convention for women's suffrage on February 20, 1895, the day of his death. digital description: Charles White worked with Robert Blackburn, an African American master lithographer, to create this depiction of the abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass (1817–1895). White felt that the images of black Americans that proliferated throughout art history were, in his words, "a plague of distortions," and he sought to create his own representations that heroicized such figures. Here, Douglass—an escaped slave—meets the viewer's gaze confidently and directly, spotlit by a white border. wall description: Frederick Douglass (1817–1895), an escaped slave, became one of the foremost African American abolitionists and civil rights leaders in the United States. His powerful speeches, newspaper articles, and books awakened whites to the evils of slavery and inspired blacks in their struggle for freedom and equality. After the Civil War, Douglass held several federal offices and fought for passage of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, which gave blacks the right to vote. He also supported women's rights and on the day of his death, February 20, 1895, he attended a convention for women's suffrage in Washington, DC. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES