Artwork Details
- Title
- Glad You Dead You Rascal You
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1990
- Location
- Dimensions
- 22 1⁄4 x 69 3⁄4 x 1 1⁄2 in. (56.5 x 177.2 x 3.8 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Mediums Description
- painted cypress
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Figure group
- African American
- Ceremony — funeral
- Object Number
- 1997.124.87
Artwork Description
This carving by Herbert Singleton shows a New Orleans jazz funeral, with mourners walking slowly behind the procession and musicians dancing ahead (Lynda Hartigan, African American Art: Recent Acquisitions, 1999/2000). Many of Singleton’s paintings depict African American life in New Orleans, emphasizing the city’s problems with drugs, shootings, and prostitution. The title of this piece is a line adapted from the 1929 song written by jazz musician Sam Theard and made famous by Louis Armstrong.