Ezra Jack Keats: Detail from The Snowy Day (1962). A book about a small boy’s delight in his first snowstorm. Reworked with hat stand and #UKSnow. Rediscovering #blackportraiture through #gettymuseumchallenge.
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2 of 5. “In 1962 Ezra Jack Keats started a quiet revolution that in its own way had as much influence as some of the decade’s louder protests. An author and illustrator, Keats published “The Snowy Day,” about a small boy’s delight in his first snowstorm. Nothing radical there.

3 of 5. But the story differed profoundly from virtually all the mainstream American picture books preceding it: Peter, the little boy, was black.” From @nytimes : https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/arts/design/the-snowy-day-art-of-ezra-jack-keats-at-jewish-museum.html

4 of 5. Keats received the 1963 Caldecott Medal for his collage artwork, which made The Snowy Day the first picture book with an African American protagonist to win a major children’s award.

5 of 5. Check out the full Rediscovering #BlackPortraiture gallery here: http://peterbrathwaitebaritone.com/rediscoveringblackportraiture