Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Rivers, Larry |
Title |
Black Revue from the portfolio "Boston Massacre" |
Date |
1970 |
Medium |
Screenprint, embossing, collage |
Dimensions |
H-19.125 W-27.25 inches |
Accession Number |
79.38.8 |
Department |
PRINTS |
Description |
Two page spread, flat metallic silver background. Left at top same repeated colonial imagery with contemporary faces (one of a black man, and one of a white man). At bottom is a Daily News masthead from June 7, 1966 with photograph of black man on ground in visible pain. "James Meredith" written across newsprint. At right: unfinished portrait with colonial British soldier applied at top. "For Crispus A." Edition: 97/150 |
Credit line |
Victor S. Liss |
Search Terms |
1970 1970s 20th Century American Boston Massacre Civil Rights Collage Embossing Figures Metallic Paper Printmaking Prints Pushing Boundaries Screenprint Silver |