2018.33.7: 200 Yrs
PrintsThree monochrome images are printed in dark gray over swirling colors on a neon yellow background. At upper center is a head and shoulders photographic portrait of Barack Obama, facing us and looking up and to the right. At lower right is a partial photograph, cropped at the upper lip, of Martin Luther King Junior. Jutting in horizontally from the lower left side is a diagram of dark skinned figures lain side by side in the hold of a ship. The words, “Hope and Dreams” are handwritten across the lower center, and lines of handwritten names appear horizontally in places across the center.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2018.33.7
- People
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Allan Edmunds, American (Philadelphia, PA born 1949)
- Title
- 200 Yrs
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 2008
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/361186
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on white wove paper
- Technique
- Offset print
- Dimensions
- 76.2 × 55.9 cm (30 × 22 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Allan Edmunds, created 2008; [Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA], sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
- Copyright
- © Allan Edmunds
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 2018.33.7
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2240 18th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/19/2018 - 06/19/2019
- Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/04/2022 - 07/31/2022
Verification Level
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