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The Incredible Hobo

Joe Light
  • JL - The Incredible Hobo - Master Image

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
1988
Enamel on wood
48 x 96 inches
Collection of
Baltimore Museum of Art
Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

In The Incredible Hobo, Light depicts himself as a quintessential drifter in a large, open landscape that seems, deceptively, to offer beauty and opportunity. Light's Hobo series conveys the artist's complex self-image, as the images are done in variations of white, red, and black to represent Light's mixed ethnic heritage.