  
 A vital component of America’s history, the struggle for freedom from slavery is told compellingly in Joseph Holston’s epic painting and mixed-media series, Color in Freedom. The dramatic images in this series contrast the brutality of slavery with the courage and strength of those who survived it, escaped it, and worked to end it. Holston (American, b. 1944) traveled the route of the Underground Railroad—the clandestine network of abolitionists who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North—in preparation for creating this dynamic pictorial narrative organized, like a symphony, in four movements. The four colorful images reproduced here—from the joyous Fourth Movement—are included, along with the rest of the series, in the book Joseph Holston: Color in Freedom; Journey Along the Underground Railroad, by Barbara Stephanic (Pomegranate, 2008).
Holston’s works are represented in numerous museums, institutions, and private collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Contains five each of the following notecards:
- Sun Warms the Freemen, 2008
- Rhythm of Renewal, 2008
- Jubilation, 2008
- Freedom Realized (Diptych), 2008
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Twenty assorted 5 x 7” blank notecards (5 each of 4 styles) with envelopes in a decorative box. Click on the small picture to see the cards. ISBN 978-0-7649-5066-7.
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