Design of Choice (Never Again with Flowers)

Andrea Bowers

Caption

Andrea Bowers American, born 1965. Design of Choice (Never Again with Flowers), 2005. Color pencil with graphite underdrawing, 10 3/8 × 13 7/8 in. (26.4 × 35.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Eileen Harris Norton, 2016.37.1. © artist or artist's estate

Title

Design of Choice (Never Again with Flowers)

Date

2005

Medium

Color pencil with graphite underdrawing

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

10 3/8 × 13 7/8 in. (26.4 × 35.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Eileen Harris Norton

Accession Number

2016.37.1

Rights

© artist or artist's estate

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    This pin, with its wire hanger illustration and its slogan "NEVER AGAIN," is a statement against the dangerous home abortions that women have often resorted to due to the illegality of abortion procedures and criminalization of abortion providers.
    Bowers wants to acknowledge and honor the activism of the women of the 1960s pro-choice movement, before Roe v. Wade was passed in 1973. And she does it through this beautifully decorated pencil drawing.

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