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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.
COLLECTIONS 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
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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