No Escape

• Title No Escape
• Category Painting
• Medium Oil on canvas
• Dimensions 14"h x 29"w
• Framed Dimensions 17"h x 33"w
• Year Completed 1980s
• Notes The name of the title suggests an unmistakable message of despair. The man hanging from a vine at the center of the painting faces a hopeless situation. Below he faces two crocodiles, to the right two lions, to the left lies the hut of a murderous sorcerer, and above a lethal snake in addition to a rat that gnaws at the vine. The dark pessimism of this painting expresses the feeling of despair experienced by many Liberians in the 1980’s after a coup d'état.
• Artist A.H. Silvanos Liberian
• Credit John and Janet Yoder Collection
• Location Lindaman 200 (Megan Hershey)
• Accession Number 2022.0117
• Status Checked Out
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