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Internationally acclaimed opera singer Marian Anderson's credits include
appearances as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra. Despite her renown, Anderson was barred from appearing at Constitution Hall, the headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, D.C., because she was African American. Instead she performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939, for an audience of more than seventy-five thousand. Johnson used photographs appearing in newspapers picturing Marian Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial as the inspiration for this
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Marian Anderson, about 1945 oil on paperboard 90.4 x 73.2 cm (35 5/8 x 28 7/8 in.) Gift of the Harmon Foundation |