In Processional, Norman Lewis set a series of white brushstrokes in a widening shape, evoking a beam
In Processional, Norman Lewis set a series of white brushstrokes in a widening shape, evoking a beam of light penetrating darkness. Processional is an abstract evocation of a march led by Martin Luther King Jr. in March 1965 from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital, Montgomery, to protest police brutality and demand federal legislation to enforce voting rights. Despite violent opposition from state troopers that had stopped two earlier efforts to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the marchers grew in number to twenty-five thousand strong and completed the fifty-four-mile journey on the third attempt.Norman Lewis (1909–1979) Processional, 1965. Oil paint on canvas. Private collection, courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York -- source link
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