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A print on off-white paper with black ink of arm raised in a fist.

The black and white print shows a Black arm breaking out of an egg-shaped object, fragments of the egg-shaped object surround the raised fist. The object casts a black shadow. The background surrounding the fist is white with shaded areas of black along the edges of the picture plane.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M15043
People
Dana Chandler, American (1941 -)
Title
The Fifteen Days of May: Black People Break Free...
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: 25 Prints for Artists Against Racism and the War
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1968
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/255700

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Lithograph

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Impressions Workshop, Boston, Massachusetts], gift; to Fogg Art Museum, March 25, 1971.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
9/40

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Impressions Workshop
Accession Year
1971
Object Number
M15043
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Makeda Best, "Twenty-five prints for artists against racism and the war, 1968", Art in Print (Chicago, 2014), Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 15-19, p. 17, ill.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/10/2019 - 10/08/2019

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