A plagiarism row ignited over paintings of a Black cowboy at Guggenheim Bilbao. Now, both works will be shown side by side:
by Dayday will be exhibited along with an artist statement, marking the visible source of inspiration for Knörr,” the museum said in a statement. “By tangibly linking the works together, we can begin to reflect on the dual erasure of the cowboys of the Basque country and African-American cowboys in the United States from history.”
In earlier work, Knörr explored the influence on Basque cowboys on the well-trod image of the cowboy in American film and pop culture. The new “Young Cowboy” series expanded on that project by highlighting Black cowboys. The artwork “revisits the history of the American West by reviving figures that may have played a prominent role in their day but have been forgotten in popular U.S. culture,” according to original press materials for the show.
As inspiration, Knörr cited the image of Brianna Noble, a young African-American woman who rode through Oakland’s 2020 Black Lives Matter protests on horseback.
Art consultant and curator Alexis Hyde was the first to point out the similarity between Knörr’s painting and“This white woman artist is out there trying to talk about erased Black history while she is actively erasing Black history,” Hyde said in a
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