Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation "Lessons of the Hour" interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass.
Louisa Matthiasdottir, Self Portrait with Yellow Table, 1981, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Gift of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters/Hassam and Speicher Fund 1988.34.
