Tom Miller, Steven Scott Gallery, and others
Summer in Baltimore
1993
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- Artist: Tom Miller
- Publisher: Steven Scott Gallery
- Printer: Lori and Duke Zimmerman
Summer in Baltimore
1993
Physical Qualities
Color screenprint, Sheet: 624 x 816 mm. (24 9/16 x 32 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, in Honor of the Artist
Object Number
1995.2
In this vignette of urban life in Baltimore, a family passes by an enticing watermelon stand while onlookers peer out from their windows. Baltimore-born artist, furniture maker, and printmaker Tom Miller celebrated the historic vibrancy of Black underground economies formed and sustained throughout the Great Migration (1910–1970), which brought thousands of Black Americans from the rural South to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions and beyond. In the early 1900s, Black vendors and hawkers with horse-drawn carts, known informally at the time as arabbers, established necessary economic pipelines to support themselves and their families. Summer in Baltimore brings this tradition to our current era through arranging isolated blocks of color into figural silhouettes and architectural forms echoed in the cityscape.
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Inscribed: Recto: in graphite, below image, left: "Baltimore Museum of Art Proof"; center: "Summer in Baltimore"; right: "Tom Miller"
