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Fairbanks or Garvey

John T. Riddle

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Object Label

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.

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) image: 19 7/8 × 30 in. (50.5 × 76.2 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. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Fairbanks or Garvey

Date

1979

Medium

Screenprint on paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

sheet: 23 15/16 × 34 in. (60.8 × 86.4 cm) image: 19 7/8 × 30 in. (50.5 × 76.2 cm)

Signatures

Signed in pencil

Inscriptions

Dated and titled in pencil; numbered "23/50" in pencil LL.

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

Accession Number

2012.80.37

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John T. Riddle

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