Untitled (Anita Hill Trial)
Sue Coe
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Sue Coe moved to the United States in 1972, and became well-known for work featuring scathing caricatures of political events and critiques of racism, sexism, and capitalism. Evoking witch hunts of the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, Coe depicts Anita Hill being burned at the stake while the all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee and press corps look on. During Clarence Thomas’s 1991 confirmation hearings for a judgeship on the Supreme Court, Hill accused Thomas of sexual harassment. Broadcast live to the nation, the hearings became a national scandal revolving around race, gender, and sexual assault, with Thomas denying all allegations and eventually being confirmed for a position on the court, which he has held since 1991. The accusatory and disbelieving tone of both the committee and the media effectively put Hill, not Thomas, on trial.
ARTIST
Sue Coe, British, born 1951
MEDIUM
Etching on paper
DATES
1992
DIMENSIONS
20 x 13 1/4 in. (50.8 x 33.7 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right: "Sue Coe 92"
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed lower left: "24"
COLLECTIONS
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
2012.90
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Marco Nocella
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Sue Coe (British, born 1951). Untitled (Anita Hill Trial), 1992. Etching on paper, 20 x 13 1/4 in. (50.8 x 33.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Marco Nocella, 2012.90. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: , 2012.90_PS9.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 2012.90_PS9.jpg., 2018
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© Sue Coe,courtesy Galerie St.Etienne, New York
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