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JOHN BIGGERS (1924 - 2001) At the Railroad.
Oil on canvas, 1988. 356x457 mm; 14x18 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left.
Provenance: the artist; collection of Frank and Evelyn Freed, Houston; acquired at Hart Galleries, Houston, February 17, 1995; private collection.
Exhibited: Art League of Houston, 2002.
This painting from John Biggers's best known Shotguns series incorporates many of his most well known elements. In her 1995 retrospective catalogue, Alvia Wardlaw describes how the railroad, the turtle and the shotgun houses are all important symbols that Biggers used to show the continued importance of spiritualism and traditional black culture in African-American communities. Wardlaw p. 63.
