Scipio Moorhead
ARTISTScipio Moorhead was an enslaved African-American artist who lived in Boston, Massachusetts. Moorhead is known through the contemporary African-American poet Phillis Wheatley's poem, dedicated "To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works", published in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773. Though the poem does it not mention Moorhead's full name, it is significantly Wheatley’s only surviving poem addressed to another black person, and it is also her only poem explicitly about artistic creation. Moorhead's full name was identified from period marginalia.
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Scipio Moorhead, wall art & digital downloads
1 works by Scipio Moorhead (American, b. 1750) are catalogued on Archive Lane, free to preview and available to download or order as a print.
Scipio Moorhead was an enslaved African-American artist who lived in Boston, Massachusetts. Moorhead is known through the contemporary African-American poet Phillis Wheatley's poem, dedicated "To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works", published in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773. Though the poem does it not mention Moorhead's full name, it is significantly Wheatley’s only surviving poem addressed to another black person, and it is also her only poem explicitly about artistic creation. Moorhead's full name was identified from period marginalia.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of Scipio Moorhead's work on the site falls under Prints (1).
Culture: American (1).
By orientation: 1 portrait.
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