Henry Taylor is famous for his portraits in which he describes the history and the condition of the African American population in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In particular, Ardmore Taylor aka \u201cMo\u201d <\/em>portrays the artist\u2019s grandfather, Ardmore Taylor, nicknamed Mo, with a tie, hat, cowboy boots and his black horse behind him (he was, in fact, a horse trainer in Texas). He keeps close-by a gun and a rifle, alluding to both his lifestyle and his death: shot and killed by a firearm in 1933 at the age of 33 years because, the artist tells us on the back of the canvas, he refused to pick cotton. He was shot in the arm by some white men who wanted to steal his horses. After his mother (the artist\u2019s great-grandmother) medicated and dressed the wound, he got back on his horse to look for those white men. He was ambushed and killed in a poorly lit street in Texas. His horse tried to use its face to lift his body, his mother along with his son (the artist\u2019s father), aged 9 or 10 at the time, carried the body home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":499,"template":"","categorie_opere":[],"curatela":[33],"class_list":["post-1042","opere","type-opere","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","curatela-clarice-pecori-gilardi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n