The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Priest giving sermon, South Carolina
1965
(American, 1929–2006)
Image: 15.9 x 24 cm (6 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 18.4 x 25 cm (7 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2016.279
© Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos
Location: not on view
Description
“A wiry jolly grandma dressed in her Sunday best” grabbed Freed’s arm after a church service and suggested he come along to a funeral at a church down the road. “‘It’s a fine funeral, isn’t it’? she said. . . . I asked if she knew the person who died. ‘No,’ she said. It was a young woman who had gone North some years ago, suddenly she became sick and died. Now she had been shipped home to the family. The turnout was good, with people coming from miles around.” —from Black in White America- Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 26-July 30, 2017).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2016.279