The Wadsworth’s AmistadCenter gets maniacal about Lincoln
By Alan Bisbort
Lincoln: Man, Myth and Memory Through April 26, WadsworthAtheneumMuseum of Art, 600 Main St., Hartford
“An evocative untitled installation by Travis Somerville depicts a ball and chain clamped around the neck of a plaster bust of Lincoln. This is paired with Somerville’s oil painting, “Smokey Joe on my Mind,” an image guaranteed to ruffle a few feathers. Lincoln in blackface (like Al Jolson) with a racially insensitive old-time cartoon character emerging from his forehead.”
