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Serenity: The Fiddler chrismtas decor her fingers dancing deftly acrossThere is a boy in this painting, lost in his music. His hat is tilted just so, his eyes are cast downward in concentration, and the fiddle rests against his chin as naturally as breathing. Artist Andrew Nichols titled this piece Serenity, and the title earns every note. The fiddle carried enormous weight in African American history. Enslaved people turned to music as a source of recreation, singing and dancing jigs and reels to the fiddle, the banjo,