Modern Medicine

mural by Alston

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  • Charles Alston and Romare Bearden
    In Charles Alston

    …murals, Magic in Medicine and Modern Medicine, for New York’s Harlem Hospital Center; the murals, commissioned in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project and completed in 1940, feature images of traditional healers in Africa as well as Black medical professionals in the United States. Among Alston’s other…

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