Grace Lynne Haynes is an American visual artist whose artwork has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions; as well as in publications, including multiple appearances on the cover of The New Yorker . [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
In 2017, Haynes graduated from the ArtCenter College of Design with a BFA. [7] Haynes is currently pursuing her MFA at the Mason Gross School of the Arts. [8]
Haynes' artwork graced the cover of the Aug 3–10, 2020 issue of The New Yorker. The new portrait of abolitionist Sojourner Truth, painted for the cover story of The New Yorker , is titled "Sojourner Truth, Founding Mother." The painting and the feature is an homage to Truth in honor of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. [5] [9] [10] Her work is in the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.
Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for The New York Times. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office in Manhattan. Ross remained the editor until his death in 1951, shaping the magazine's editorial tone and standards.
Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman, professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman. In September 2022, the National Book Foundation announced that he would receive the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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