Lil' Ms. Brown

About this work

Lil’ Ms. Brown is a limited‑edition archival pigment print by contemporary Neo‑Expressionist artist b. Robert Moore, created as part of his Brown Like Me collection reimagining familiar pop‑culture characters with Black and Brown faces. The series revisits figures from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, and this work repurposes the iconic profile of Lucy Van Pelt yelling—now rendered as a Black girl with braided hair, beads, and a red dress—to directly challenge the historic lack of diverse representation in classic comics, animation, and pop culture. Moore overlays this figure with gestural strokes and vivid blocks of color, along with the text “Peanut” scrawled across the field, fusing critique and homage in a way that feels both playful and confrontational. Produced as an archival pigment print on fine art paper and released through platforms such as 1XRUN, the edition for Lil’ Ms. Brown is limited to just 75 standard prints, each hand‑signed and numbered in pencil, with separate artist and printer proofs noted on the certificate. Your copy, numbered in the lower left margin and accompanied by a matching 1XRUN certificate of authenticity specifying an edition size of 75, sits firmly within this tightly controlled run. Within The Askia Jones Collection, Lil’ Ms. Brown operates as a keystone in the Urban / Contemporary and Limited Edition Prints strands, explicitly tying your historic Peanuts, animation, and comics material to present‑day efforts by Black artists to rewrite the visual canon and center Black childhood and subjectivity where it was once marginal or absent.