Fairbanks or Garvey
1979
John T. Riddle
American, 1933-2002
Contemporary Art
In this screenprint John T. Riddle contrasted the racist imagery of a commercial soap powder with a portrait of Marcus Garvey, a prominent Black Nationalist leader in the early twentieth century who advocated a separate society for Black people worldwide and their return to Africa. The work posits an option for Black people between servitude and radical liberation.
- Maker/Artist
- Riddle, John
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- Screenprint on paper
- Medium
- screenprint, paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 23 15/16 × 34 in. (60.8 × 86.4 cm) image: 19 7/8 × 30 in. (50.5 × 76.2 cm)
- Inscribed
- Dated and titled in pencil; numbered "23/50" in pencil LL.
- Departments
- Contemporary Art
- Accession Number
- 2012.80.37
- Credit Line
- Gift of R.M. Atwater, Anna Wolfrom Dove, Alice Fiebiger, Joseph Fiebiger, Belle Campbell Harriss, and Emma L. Hyde, by exchange, Designated Purchase Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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