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Birmingham Race Riot
196419 15/16 x 24 in. (50.7 x 61 cm)
Andy Warhol
United States (Pittsburgh, PA, 1928 - 1987, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Serigraph on paper
Credit Line:
The Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery
Accession Number:
1975.335.10
Location: Not currently on view
Collection:
The Charles Rand Penney Collection
Edition: 255/500
Printer: Sirocco Screenprinters
Publisher: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Portfolio: X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters)
Andy Warhol frequently appropriated images by other artists for his work. In this case, the image was originally a photograph by Charles Moore in "Life" magazine, May 17, 1963.
[Gallery label text 2013]
This image first appeared in Andy Warhol’s Disasters series, in which the artist selected, cropped, altered, and reproduced mass-circulated news photographs. The series commented upon America’s social ills with photos of suicides, car crashes and nuclear explosions. Birmingham Race Riot captures the racial tensions that gripped the country during the Civil Rights Movement.
Warhol was an eager consumer of newspapers and magazines; he likely saw this photo of the Birmingham riot when it was published in LIFE magazine on May 17, 1963, only five days after the event it immortalized. The original photograph was taken by Charles Moore.
[Gallery label text 2013]
This image first appeared in Andy Warhol’s Disasters series, in which the artist selected, cropped, altered, and reproduced mass-circulated news photographs. The series commented upon America’s social ills with photos of suicides, car crashes and nuclear explosions. Birmingham Race Riot captures the racial tensions that gripped the country during the Civil Rights Movement.
Warhol was an eager consumer of newspapers and magazines; he likely saw this photo of the Birmingham riot when it was published in LIFE magazine on May 17, 1963, only five days after the event it immortalized. The original photograph was taken by Charles Moore.
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Charles Rand Penney Collection Memorial Art Gallery 2/27/1976 - 3/28/1976
- The Popular Image Memorial Art Gallery 11/29/1983 - 1/29/1984
- Contemporary Prints from the Memorial Art Gallery 4/3/1987 - 5/24/1987
- 1968: You Say You Want a Revolution 12/5/2003 - 2/15/2004
- In Search of Shadows Memorial Art Gallery 5/8/2015 - 8/16/2015
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: Acquisition: The Charles Rand Penney Foundation Collection. Article Scope: article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 41, Issue Number: 6. Issue Date: February 1976.
- Article Scope: Entry. Susan Sheehan. American Prints from the Sixties. New York, New York: Susan Sheehan Gallery, 1989.
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- The Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1976.
- Article Scope: Catalogue Raisonné entry and reproduction. Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann. Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalog Raisonné 1962-1987. New York, NY: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers in association with R. Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., 1997.
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