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The Toledo Museum of Art to host Bare Witness ~ Photographs by Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks - "Children with Doll (Ella Watson’s Grandchildren)", 1942 - Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches. Lent by The Capital Group Foundation, 2002.13  /  © 2006 The Gordon Parks Foundation

TOLEDO, OHIOCoinciding with Black
History Month, a compelling exhibition of iconic and powerfully moving images by
the late African-American photographer Gordon Parks is coming to the Toledo
Museum of Art.
Bare
Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks

brings together 73 works grouped specifically by Parks himself.
The
free exhibition opens to the public on Thursday, Feb. 5, in the Canaday Gallery
and continues through April 25, 2010.