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| Identifier | 15thDefenseElmerWBrown |
| Title | 15th Defense |
| Subject | Karamu House
Works Progress Administration (U.S.)
African Americans
Artists
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| Description | "Fifteenth Defense" refers to boxer Joe Louis' triumph after the 15th round. Elmer W. Brown (1909-1977) 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)
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| Time Period | Post-Industrial: 1930-1959
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| Date Original | n.d. |
| Object Type | linocuts
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| Donor | Russell and Rowena Jelliffe
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| Collection | Russell and Rowena Jelliffe Collection
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| Repository | Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections. |
| Repository Collection | Russell and Rowena Jelliffe Collection |
| Repository Homepage | http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/ |
| Digital Publisher | Cleveland Memory Project |
| Copyright | http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/ |
| Format | jpeg
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| Digital Processing Notes | TIF File Size: 42,467 k - DPI: 300 |
| Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entry | http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=KH |
| Further Reading | http://scholar.csuohio.edu/record=b2552889~S0 |
