Fairbanks or Garvey
John T. Riddle
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.
MEDIUM
Screenprint on paper
DATES
1979
DIMENSIONS
sheet: 23 15/16 × 34 in. (60.8 × 86.4 cm)
image: 19 7/8 × 30 in. (50.5 × 76.2 cm)
(show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed in pencil
INSCRIPTIONS
Dated and titled in pencil; numbered "23/50" in pencil LL.
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
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
John T. Riddle (American, 1933–2002). Fairbanks or Garvey, 1979. Screenprint on paper, sheet: 23 15/16 × 34 in. (60.8 × 86.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, 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, 2012.80.37. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2012.80.37_PS4.jpg)
EDITION
23/50
IMAGE
overall, 2012.80.37_PS4.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2013
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