We Too Sing America print by Ritchie Weatherspoon


Item Number: AUC134

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $40

Online Close: Oct 6, 2007 11:00 PM EDT

Bid History: 1 bid - Item Sold!

Description

Weatherspoon works in soft pastel. His We Too Sing America By Langston Hughes (2004) "symbolizes the meaning of the late great African American poet Langston Hughes' poem titled 'We Too Sing America'- because no matter how...divided we are...or different we are ..., we are all Americans."

Special Instructions

Ritchie Weatherspoon, 37, incarcerated for 19 years, is a self-taught prison artist who states that four years ago, "when I began to lose hope, I found art." Of his work, he says, "If it were not for friends...and the wonderful people who believed in what I could not see, I would not be!" Weatherspoon is thankful to be able to exhibit his work and "to speak to you through my vision. Without art I would be just another prison number, a silenced voice behind prison walls." 

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