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.
Lee Godie, Three Self Portraits with Photo and Cameo, 1970s, pen and watercolor on canvas with mixed media, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment 1997.124.21.