Lopi LaRoe Emergency

Lopi LaRoe

Emergency
Oil on Board
4 ½ “ X 4 ½ “
2006

William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones during protest march on Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee on August, 1961. This painting references a photograph taken by civil rights photographer Ernest Withers. Withers’ civil rights photographs are his most important body of work. He is unquestionably one of the most significant photographers of the movement. In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis was at the heart of the civil rights movement and Withers was there not only to document the struggle, but also to work actively to propel the movement forward. Withers, at great personal risk, has photographed many civil rights battles.

Lopi LaRoe

Emergency
Oil on Board
4 ½ “ X 4 ½ “
2006

William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones during protest march on Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee on August, 1961. This painting references a photograph taken by civil rights photographer Ernest Withers. Withers’ civil rights photographs are his most important body of work. He is unquestionably one of the most significant photographers of the movement. In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis was at the heart of the civil rights movement and Withers was there not only to document the struggle, but also to work actively to propel the movement forward. Withers, at great personal risk, has photographed many civil rights battles.