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@ Tubman African American Musuem

Greene, Annie Tarver

Description

Fiber art by Annie Greene.Greene is an artist and retired educator currently living in LaGrange, Georgia. She is best known for her images crafted in yarn, a unique medium she began to explore in the 1970s. Greene's yarn paintings frequently reflect culturally and socially relevant imagery culled from her life as an African American woman living in the rural South. This work depicts the historic Douglass Theatre in Macon, Georgia. During segregation, the Douglass Theatre was the most important entertainment venue available for African American performers and audiences in Macon.Purchase of the Tubman African American Museum.

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Tubman African American Musuem

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Art
  2. African American Entertainers
  3. African American Musicians
  4. African Americans
  5. Art, American
  6. Brown, James, 1933 2006
  7. Butterbeans Susie (Musical Group)
  8. Calloway, Cab, 1907 1994
  9. Ellington, Duke, 1899 1974
  10. Fiberwork
  11. Georgia
  12. Little Richard, 1932
  13. Macon
  14. Mixed Media Painting
  15. Rainey, Ma, 1886 1939
  16. Redding, Otis, 1941 1967
  17. Smith, Bessie, 1894 1937
  18. Theaters
  19. United States
  20. Vaudeville

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Letter: to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., Macon, Georgia, possibly 1925 Letter: Valdosta, Georgia to Ben Stein, Macon, Georgia, possibly 1927 Letter: Chattanooga, Tennessee to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., Macon, Georgia, 1925 July 21 Letter: Washington D.C. to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., Macon, Georgia, 1926 Feb. 15 Letter: Chattanooga, Tennessee to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., Macon, Georgia, 1925 Mar. 10 Letter: Chattanooga, Tennessee to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., Macon, Georgia, 1924 Dec. 15 Letter: Chattanooga, Tennessee to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., Macon, Georgia, 1925 Oct. 14 Letter: Valdosta, Georgia to Ben Stein, Macon, Georgia, 1927 July 14 Letter: Nashville, Tennessee to Ben Stein, Macon, Georgia, 1928 Feb. 4 Letter: Valdosta, Georgia to Ben Stein, Macon, Georgia, 1927 July 8 Circular advertising the Chicago Hot Shots at the Douglass Theatre, Macon, Georgia, 1927 May 20 to May 26 Advertising card for the Douglass Theatre, probably 1925 Jan. 26 Letter: Washington D.C. to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., Macon, Georgia, 1926 July 27 Letter: Nashville, Tennessee to Macon, Georgia, 1928 Mar. 5 Letter: Chattanooga, Tennessee to William M. Smith, Macon, Georgia, 1927 Sept. 6 Agreement between the Theatre Owners Booking Association and Ben Stein, 1928 Feb. 14 Rhythm and blues music: overview Agreement between the Theatre Owners Booking Association and Ben Stein, 1927 Dec. 12 Agreement between the Theatre Owners Booking Association and Ben Stein, 1928 Mar. 9 "Little Richard" Penniman
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