![]() NMAAHC, purchased through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, © Bisa Butler Carte-de-visite of Harriet Tubman, ca. I Go To Prepare A Place For You by Bisa Butler, 2021 In contrast, Butler’s work, I Go to Prepare a Place for You, fairly explodes in color, with Tubman’s hands depicted in vivid blue, purple and red, symbolizing coolness, calmness and strength as well as power and force. Installed in a darkened room all to itself, Sherald’s image, in cool blues and subdued grays, evokes the kind of hushed reverence similar to the gallery space where the coffin of Emmett Till is displayed several floors below. ![]() The show recontextualizes the museum’s art holdings to paint a picture of activism and resilience, which culminates in Amy Sherald’s celebrated portrait of Breonna Taylor that made the cover last year of Vanity Fair. A second version of the image-on a grander scale commensurate with her legacy-is the vivid, more than seven-foot-tall fabric tapestry, a commissioned work by artist Bisa Butler, that is one of the highlights of the museum’s new visual arts exhibition, “Reckoning: Protest. ![]() The righteous determination of a younger Harriet Tubman stares out from two different floors of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington these days. One is a rare, calling card-sized photograph of the civil rights hero that dates to the late 1860s and was only recently discovered in a photo album of abolitionists acquired jointly by the museum with the Library of Congress in 2017.
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