Identifier	JungleBreakfastElmerWBrown
Title	Jungle Breakfast
Subject	Karamu House Works Progress Administration (U.S.) African Americans Artists
Description	Three men are cooking over a fire built near railroad tracks. What really animates this scene are the diagonal lines used to depict the stick holding a can over the fire; the tree behind the men; and the train racing across the background. Elmer W. Brown (1909-1971) was a painter, printmaker, muralist, illustrator, set designer, cartoonist, enamelist, ceramist, and educator. He came to Cleveland at the age of twenty, after a childhood of considerable hardship. Brown studied at the Cleveland School (now Institute) of Art and at the John Huntington Polytechnical Institute. Early in his career, he taught at Karamu House, one of the country's most active community arts centers, and also designed costumes and sets for its outstanding theater department. At Karamu he befriended the poet Langston Hughes and eventually illustrated some of Hughes' books. In 1934 Brown participated in the International Print Shows in New York and Philadelphia. Employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the early 1940s, Brown executed a series of murals for Valleyview Homes Community Center. Best known among his murals is the extant Freedom of Speech at the City Club.
Creator	Brown, Elmer W.
Location Depicted	Fairfax (Cleveland, Ohio)
Time Period	Post-Industrial: 1930-1959
Date Original	1940
Object Type	linocuts (prints)
Digital Collection	Jelliffe Collection
Donor	Russell and Rowena Jelliffe
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Format	jpeg
Digital Processing Notes	TIF File Size: 28,516 k - DPI: 300
Repository	Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Collection	Russell and Rowena Jelliffe Collection
Repository Homepage	http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll/index.html
Digital Publisher	Cleveland Memory Project
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entry	http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=KH
Further Reading	http://scholar.csuohio.edu/record=b2552889~S0

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