Daniel Boone | Li’l Artha blues
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Li’l Artha blues

Date

1996

Work

Painting, Triptych

Support

Oil on canvas

Owner/Estate

Daniel Boone estate

Category
Art
About This Project

Tribute to Jack Johnson. Center: young Jack Johnson watches a bare-knuckle fight at the time black people were not allowed to fight. Reserved to awkward white fighters. Left: Jack Johnson knocks out Jim Jeffries and becomes the first colored heavyweight world champion, at the astonishment and anger of the white audience. The fight took place on July 4, 1910 in front of 20,000 people, at a ring built just for the occasion in downtown Reno, Nevada. Right: Jack Johnson is defeated by Jess Willard in Cuba, 1913. Here in a penitentiary. It is said that Johnson had sold his title where bankrupt. Background: blues’ songs lyrics.