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Hope Somewhere in America
Hope Somewhere in America
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Born in Harlem during the Great Depression, a little African-American girl is named Hope Sequoyah for the promise of better times to come and the Cherokee chief who taught his people how to read and write. “With a name like yours, you must stand tall,” her mama always says. When Hope is five years old, her mama takes a painting class with Robert Brackman and Hope’s life is forever changed. In her own words, Hope tells of how she gets another name and meets President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor — all with her teddy bear by her side.
The story that Sydelle Pearl created is fiction, but Robert Brackman was in fact an art teacher at the Art Students League of New York and painted Somewhere in America in 1934 as part of President Roosevelt’s Public Works for Art Project during the Great Depression. At the time of this writing, Somewhere in America is part of a travelling exhibition from the Smithsonian American Art Museum called 12934: A New Deal for Artists.
The story that Sydelle Pearl created is fiction, but Robert Brackman was in fact an art teacher at the Art Students League of New York and painted Somewhere in America in 1934 as part of President Roosevelt’s Public Works for Art Project during the Great Depression. At the time of this writing, Somewhere in America is part of a travelling exhibition from the Smithsonian American Art Museum called 12934: A New Deal for Artists.
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