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My Home Town

1998

Michelangelo Lovelace

(American, 1960–2021)
Culture
America, Ohio, Cleveland
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Measurements
Unframed: 139.7 x 243.8 cm (55 x 96 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Artist, Michelangelo Lovelace, Sr. 2015.83
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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In Lovelace's painting, the city's east-west orientation is reversed on the upper half of the painting versus its lower half.

Description

Lovelace dedicated most of his career to depicting Cleveland’s urban landscape; many of the city’s iconic destinations are visible in the background of My Home Town. His paintings can be read as vibrant and candid commentaries on the city’s sociopolitical and cultural heritage. This work’s panoramic scene combines different local neighborhoods, represented as storefronts. Lovelace said, “I painted the way I remember Cleveland being—white on the west, black on the east, and with downtown where people came together in the middle.”
A horizontally oriented, stylized, acrylic painting depicts the Cleveland skyline condensed to show major monuments in the upper half and people gathered in the lower half, with a sign reading "Welcome to Cleveland" above. Painted with strokes of solid color in vibrant colors the people have mostly medium-dark to dark skin tone on our left and medium-light to light on our right, intermingling across the road between them. Behind, skyscrapers are flanked by a baseball field left and football field and the glass pyramid of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at the right.

My Home Town

1998

Michelangelo Lovelace

(American, 1960–2021)
America, Ohio, Cleveland

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