Driving Through Mississippi in Chicago

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Driving Through Mississippi in Chicago

Entry/Object ID

2016.128

Description

two patches of multicolored stripes with faint words/letters on the background of a repeating black and gray pattern

Artwork Details

Medium

Lithograph

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment

Made/Created

Artist

Binion, McArthur

Date made

2009

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Location

bottom left of verso

Transcription

8/20

Notes

Inscription Type: graphite

Location

botton right of verso

Transcription

[artist signature] 2009

Notes

Inscription Type: graphite

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

African American, modern North American, modern American, Americas, The, Abstract (modern European style), European, geometric abstraction, abstraction, forms of expression (artistic concept), artistic concepts

Hierarchy Name

Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)

Facet

Styles and Periods Facet, Associated Concepts Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

26-1/2 in

Length

22-1/2 in

Exhibition

DPAM Collects: Happy Little Trees and Other Recent Acquisitions

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

McArthur Binion (American, b. 1946) Driving Through Mississippi in Chicago, 2009 Lithograph Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment Fund 2016.128 In this work by Chicago-based artist McArthur Binion, an image of his childhood home in Macon, Mississippi is darkly replicated at the center while blocks of color on either side cover the contact information of friends and family from his address book. Driving Through Mississippi in Chicago speaks to the connections between the artist’s personal histories and those found in other families from similar circumstances. This image of the artist’s home in Mississippi can be linked to a representation of Chicago as seen through the filter of dislocation. Binion notes, “A particular area in Chicago had the rural reminiscence of Mississippi and is now totally demolished due to developers.” This reminiscence is less about the building itself and more about the desire to return to a community, one that only exists in the hearts and minds of its former inhabitants.