M15043: The Fifteen Days of May: Black People Break Free...
PrintsThe 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
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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
- 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
- Permissions
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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, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/10/2019 - 10/08/2019
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Verification Level
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