Who Destroyed This Iconic African-American Mural in Philadelphia?
The mural celebrating printmaker Dox Thrash is now a big, ugly square of paint.
John Metcalfe
Dox Thrash was a highly regarded African American artist who invented the carborundum mezzotint, a printmaking process that generates exceptionally dark colors.
So it's grimly fitting that whoever obliterated his tribute mural in Philadelphia used a paint of the blackest hue:
