500148 The Power of Music, 1847 (oil on canvas) by Mount, William Sidney (1807-68); 67x78 (framed) 43.4x53.5 (unframed) cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA; (add.info.: Set in rural Long Island before the Civil War, this scene of an African American laborer eavesdropping on a fiddle tune suggests the divisive race relations in America at the time. While a love of music connects the men and acknowledges their common humanity, they nevertheless occupy different spaces. The barn door that separates the labourer likely serves as a symbolic reminder that he lacked the political rights and social privileges of the group of white men inside.); Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund; American, out of copyright.