How could I be afraid of something I don’t know anything about?

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Henry Taylor, Cicely and Miles Visit the Obamas, 2017

In this 2017 painting Henry Taylor references a well-known photograph of Miles Davis and Cicely Tyson taken by Ron Galella in 1968 at the premiere of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Tyson played Portia in the film.

I have always loved that almost every gesture and detail in the painting is true to the p…