I've Known Rivers

1941 Image: 19.6 x 19.4 cm (7 11/16 x 7 5/8 in.); Sheet: 40.6 x 30.4 cm (16 x 11 15/16 in.)
https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.55

In this composition, which features a man reflecting on a shore, William E. Smith imagined the narrator of Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” who proclaims, “My soul has grown deep like the rivers.” The poem established Hughes’s reputation as a leading figure with...

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