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Tool Shed

1939
(American, 1911–1987)
linocut
Image: 21.5 x 26.3 cm (8 7/16 x 10 3/8 in.); Sheet: 30.5 x 35 cm (12 x 13 3/4 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Trust 2022.52
Edition: 30
Location: not on view
This artwork is known to be under copyright.

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This print was included in a 1942 exhibition of Karamu House artists organized at New York’s Associated American Artists Galleries and sponsored by a committee including cultural figures such as Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, and Carl Van Vechten. The show traveled to Philadelphia’s Temple University and brought national attention to the Karamu House printmaking workshop.

Description

This linocut was created by Fred Carlo while he was involved in the printmaking workshop at Karamu House, a community art center founded in 1915 that is still active in Cleveland today. Created by carving into a smooth linoleum block, linocut is an accessible technique that was favored at Karamu for its accessibility and democracy. Carlo used it to create evocatively depict the lives of Black Clevelanders—here, as he described, a view “from a neighbor’s back porch.”
Tool Shed

Tool Shed

1939

Fred Carlo

(American, 1911–1987)

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