John Lewis in Cairo, from "Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement" / Danny Lyon

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Accession Number: 2014/2.319
Title: John Lewis in Cairo, from "Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement"
Artist: Danny Lyon
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: b. 1942
Medium and Support: gelatin silver print on paper
Object Creation Date: 1962; printed 2010
Credit Line: Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
Inscription: signed verso in pencil, Black Beauty stamp
Dimensions: 27.94 x 35.56 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Physical Description: A group of African Americans praying while kneeling on a street. There is concrete pavement and a brick building behind them.
Primary Keywords: children (offspring); people; praying
Secondary Keywords: mental activities; people (agents); people and culture; people by family relationship
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 4685 x 3189
File Size: 333 KB
Record: 2014/2.319
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2014-sl-2.319/2014_2.319.jpg

In public portfolios: 0 - Berkley, f16 - Photography (18); 0 - Berrey, f16 - Art of the 1960s, a study case selection (15); 0 - Ellsworth, W17 - The Southern Novel in Historical Context - object study (11); 0 - Race and Beauty in American Culture (67); 0 - Spooner, W17 - Doing History (20); 0 - Stauch, W17 - Black Social Movements in US History (13); 0 - The U.S. South (63); 0 - UMMA - Access to opportunity (34); 244 UMMA objects (100); American radicalism (68); Black protest art - a study room selection (16); Black protest art - a study room selection #2 (16); Civil rights and non-violent protest - a study room selection (19); Legacy of US slavery (28); Pop and 1960s (59); Race and social justice (53); Race, gender, class and American identity (393); The artist persona - a study room selection (23); U.S. Civil Rights Movement (30); U.S. Civil Rights Movement - a study case selection (12)

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Full citation: "John Lewis in Cairo, from "Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement"; Danny Lyon." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2014-sl-2.319/2014_2.319.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.