MJJG: up to page 64 - pictures, paintings & artworks in MJ

[Raphael Saltwood]

Apparently page numbers aren’t good across editions - these are for the Nook Book, Open Road publishers.


1) pg 24 - in the windows of “numbers” outlets formerly containing Dutch Masters cigar boxes as a sign of their fealty to gangster Schlitz —
Buddy Jackson takes over the locations & the new sign is a picture of Afro-American Mason named Prince Hall.
 “...founder of African Lodge #1 of the Black Masons....The portrait of Prince Hall dressed in the formal Colonial outfit of his day, the frilled white blouse and collar showing beneath the frock coat and vest. The short white wig.
“The painting is so realistic that you can see his auras. In his right hand he holds the charter the Black Freemasons have received from England.”

I’ve found several with the charter in his left hand such as

https://images.app.goo.gl/xvsGrmuXy17qwqAe8


Still inspiring artists today:

http://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com/2020/12/prince-hall-inspires-new-portrait-and.html?m=1

Again, left hand. Weird.

2) pg 28 - “The [doomed] Robber Baron removes a wood sculpture from his pocket. Look at the ugly carving my wife gave me. She bought it from one of those leathernecks in the black market...Have you ever seen such an ugly thing. The obtuse snout; the sausage lips.”
Also appears on pg 57




3) pg 32 - in the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral “PaPa LaBas glances up at the oil portrait hanging on the wall. It is a picture of the original Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral taken weeks ago. Berbelang, his enigmatic smile, the thick mustache, the derby and snappy bowtie, his mysterious ring bearing the initials E.F., his eyes of black rock, 2 mysterious bodies emitting radio energy from deep in space, set in the narrow face. Earline in the characteristic black skirt, the white blouse with the ruffled shoulders, the violet stone around her neck; Charlotte, a French trainee he has hired to fill in for Berbelang, wears a similar costume to Earline’s and smokes a cigarette. In the painting, completed 2 weeks before Berbelang left the group, she stands next to Earline.”

4) pg 40 - cover picture on Black Herman’s book_
“...he sits on a globe, one booted foot atop a stack of 3 books, the top one entitled _The Missing Key_ subtitled _Key to Success. In the photo his body is framed by designs of an Arabesque nature.”

https://images.app.goo.gl/jV4bVfgR5z324HmEA

5) pg 57 - “In the Dark Tower room, artists using cornmeal and water were drawing veves. Markings which were invitations to new load for New Art.”

Erzulie Dantor veve
https://images.app.goo.gl/1TfuKKu68YvxjzT7A

Papa Legba veve

https://images.app.goo.gl/9WahrF1EejRxewC98

6) pg 63 - Earline’s place - or Earline & Berbelang’s place? — “Berbelang glances at the painting on the wall. It was done by J. B. Bottex, a Haitian. A Black Mary Magdalene and Jesus. The 1st thing you see is the woman’s effulgent rump covered by a lime dress. She wears pearls, a string around her neck, and her hair is tied in a bun. She is watching a procession, some Haitians following Christ...Christ has eyes for her. He has stopped and is staring at her as she leans over the banister of her porch.”

A real painting:
https://indigoarts.com/christ-and-woman-blue-dress

7) pg 64 - “Hinckle von Vampton resembles the 4th Horseman of the Apocalypse as depicted in a strange painting by William Blake: a gray-bearded figure of whom it was written, ‘Behold, pale horse and its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him.”

https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/friends/exhibits/blake_death.html