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Title: Poto-Poto School Painting
Issue Date: 2023
Publisher: Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections
Abstract: Goauche on pink paper. Depicts four figures, each is standing over a bowl and wears red, white, and blue. Signed in botom 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/10267/36466
Appears in Collections:Rhodes College Collection of Artwork and Artifacts

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