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Knowledge of the Past Is the Key to the Future: Some Afterthoughts on Discovery
Robert ColescottWW-1986-003369
1986.68a-eArthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1987
Catalogue
- Year
- 1986
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 90 1/4 in. × 9 ft. 6 1/4 in. (229.2 × 290.2 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Robert Colescott
Artist

Robert Colescott
Painting
Robert H. Colescott was an American painter. He is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter reflections on being African American. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris. Colescott's work is in many major public collections, including the Albright-Knox in Buffalo, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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- Robert Colescott
- Year
- 1986
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 90 1/4 in. × 9 ft. 6 1/4 in. (229.2 × 290.2 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1986-003369
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified