Birmingham Race Riot, from "Ten Works + Ten Painters" / Andy Warhol
About this Item
Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1986/1.194.5
- Title
- Birmingham Race Riot, from "Ten Works + Ten Painters"
- Artist
- Andy Warhol
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1928 - 1987
- Medium and Support
- screenprint on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1964
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Graham and Marianne Smith
- Inscription
- See catalog card for inscription.
- Dimensions
- 51 cm x 61.1 cm (20 1/16 in. x 24 1/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- black and white print
- Physical Description
- This work shows a black and white photograph of a crowd of people outdoors, with trees in the background. On the left is a uniformed policeman holding a dog on a leash in one hand and a club in the other. In the center area there is a man, with his back to the viewer, who is being attacked by two dogs. One, controlled by another policeman, is ripping his clothing and the other, with teeth bared, is attacking his right hand. In the crowd there are men watching the attack and looking at the policemen.
- Subject Matter
- This work is one of ten prints published within a portfolio, “Ten Works + Ten Painters”, commissioned by Samuel J. Wagstaff from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in 1964. This portfolio was one of the earliest to have several artists published together to make major American artists accessible to a wider audience and range of collectors. Each print in this portfolio was based on a painting the artists had previously created. Some of the artists represented, in addition to Andy Warhol, are Frank Stella, Robert Motherwell, Ellsworth Kelly and Roy Lichtenstein who were associated with the Pop and Minimalism art movements in the 1960s.
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- mammals
- modern and contemporary art
- people and occupations
- plants
- standing
- the natural world
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 961 x 803
- File Size
- 113 KB
- Record
- 1986/1.194.5
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1986-sl-1.194.5/1986_1.194.5.jpg
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"Birmingham Race Riot, from "Ten Works + Ten Painters"; Andy Warhol." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1986-sl-1.194.5/1986_1.194.5.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.