- Will Maxen
- i wish there were more colored people, 2023
- Oil and graphite on canvas
- 20 x 16 in
- Framed: 21.5 x 17.25 x 2 in
- Inv: 2024.002
Abstract painting on white canvas with strokes of predominantly green paint, as well as brown paint. Bits of orange, pink, yellow and red paint throughout canvas. White background peeks out of upper right, upper left and lower left corners. Green paint drips down lower left corner of canvas. Stenciled onto the canvas are the words "wish there were more colored people." "wish there" is filled in black at the top border of the canvas; "were" is at the middle left of the canvas and filled in black; the "m" in "more" is faintly stenciled next to "were"; "colored people" is at the bottom of the canvas and is stenciled in pencil, not filled in.
- Subject Matter: Abstract; Landscape
- Attribution: Collection of Art Galleries at Black Studies at The University of Texas at Austin