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Radcliffe Bailey Obituary, Death Cause – Radcliffe Bailey, an artist known for finding black history in everyday life, passed away at the age of 55. On Tuesday, in Atlanta, Radcliffe Bailey, an artist whose sculptural assemblages and paintings eloquently recalled the past, present, and future of Black Americans through ready-made materials and images, passed away at the age of 55. Bailey was an artist whose work combined ready-made things and images in a way that evoked all three time periods.

It was confirmed by his brother Roy that he had passed away, and he stated that the musician had been suffering brain cancer. Bailey has spent the last three decades compiling a significant body of work in which he integrates the items of black history that he has collected into a chronological progression. Tintypes from his family’s archive, Georgian red clay, shipping tarp, and African figurines were among the various components that appeared in his art, which primarily took the shape of sculptural works, some of which were gigantic in scale.

His work was primarily displayed in the form of installations. His piece Windward Coast, which he created between 2009 and 2011, is one of his most well-known works. It consists of 35,000 piano keys laid out on the floor, and the head of a Black man is visible poking out of the pile. The performance portrays the precariousness of Black life, the deeply felt grief that resulted from slavery that resounds across the centuries, and the effect that sound and music have held for Bailey and other members of his community with a rumbling soundtrack that emits from a conch shell.

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