Pinnochio

At the Cincinnati Art Museum, a bronze sculpture of Pinnochio.  Inside, a Pinnochio portfolio and a scupture of Shark Girl.  And all the other good stuff.  Plus two special exhibits:  Art of Sound and Henry Ossawa Tanner.

Tanner must have been a very prolific painter and he was the first Black painter to earn international acclaim.  There were so many really good paintings in the exhibit.  Strange to think that, during this lifetime, (he died in 1937) there were many places in this country where he couldn't go.  At that time, in my state, blacks and whites couldn't attend school together.  Tanner eventually moved to France and a warmer reception.

For a little Civil Rights history, if you're interested, google Day Law Kentucky.  Berea College argued against the Kentucky legislature implementing the Day Law in 1904, which prohibited private schools from integrating, as well as public schools.  The Day Law was voted into effect and was upheld by the Supreme Court.  It was finally repealed by the state legislature in the early 1950's.

Only appropriate, one of the paintings in the exhibit, mountains in North Carolina's Highlands, was from a Berea College collection.