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| Title: | Poto-Poto School Painting |
| Issue Date: | 2023 |
| Publisher: | Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections |
| Abstract: | Gouache on pink paper. Depicts four figures standing with a tree in between. On one side one wears white and the other red, and on the other side one wears white and the other blue. Signed in bottom right corner. |
| Description: | Reverend William Pruitt (1911-1999), who served as a Presbyterian missionary in the Belgian Congo from the 1930s to 1978, collected a group of 37 paintings from artists at the Poto-Poto School, a small art school in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo that is still in operation today. In 1998, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. began an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse made by several children of missionaries from the time Pruitt was a missionary in the Congo. This collection of paintings was found in the Rhodes College collection in the summer of 2023. The paintings were digitized and cataloged in the Visual Resources Center during fall 2023. Learn more about the William Pruitt investigation here: https://www.pcusa.org/news/2010/12/16/pcusa-named-lawsuit-alleged-victim-sexual-abuse-mi/ https://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/iarp/pdfs/iarp_final_report.pdf |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10267/36465 |
| Appears in Collections: | Rhodes College Collection of Artwork and Artifacts |
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