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Dr. Leo G. Mazow

About Dr. Leo G. Mazow

Dr. Leo G. Mazow is the Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Detail, Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians, 1967, collage of various papers with paint and graphite on canvas, 50 x 60 x 1 ½ inches (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) — Bearden thought about painting like music.

Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians

by Dr. Sarah Eckhardt, Dr. Leo G. Mazow and Dr. Steven Zucker

Detail, Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians, 1967, collage of various papers with paint and graphite on canvas, 50 x 60 x 1 ½ inches (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) — An abstract painting, a collage, three musicians, two guitars and a banjo.

Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians

by Dr. Leo G. Mazow and Dr. Sarah Eckhardt

Woodruff reimagines racist tropes of Black banjo players with a figure who is confident and joyful

Hale Woodruff, The Banjo Player

by Dr. Leo G. Mazow and Dr. Beth Harris