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The life force and the expression of dignity which come through in White's work go beyond the mastery of a technical skill. They advance our knowledge of African-American forms as defined by a sensitive artist in the Black Experience.

In HARVEST, a close kinship with the Mexican muralists is revealed but a the same time the artist relies upon his experiences of life and upon those values that are vital to him and to the people that he knows. This work communicates a felling of wholeness as it speaks symbolically of reaping good deeds through the long harvest.

The late Palmer Hayden, one of the true folklorists of Black Experience, provied us with many themes that dealt with such stories as John Henry, Tricky Sam and many other tales that are dear to the hearts of all Americans.

William H. Johnson saw a colorful lyrical world, as he made his way from the Deep South, across Europe and North Africa into the clear mountain air of Norway above the Artic Circle. Of this twenty year odyssey, he observed life and customs through the univerrsal language of art. We see two aspects of his life here - Europe and the South.