Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City
Object Details
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
- Description
- Seventh (7) of twelve (12) painted plywood panels from the Resurrection City mural that was created and displayed in the encampment on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 1968. Depicted in the upper left corner of this panel is the word "LO / VE" painted in red in large letters. The rest of the panel is covered in other text painted in brown, yellow, red, black, and green, including "PACHUCO POR VIDA", "DOWN WITH BLACK TRAITORS", SOCK IT TO ME", "NOT WAR", and "J.M. + L.B." This segment is from the lower left corner, third from the left.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Vincent DeForest
- 1968
- Object number
- 2012.110.7
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- mural paintings
- Medium
- oil paint and ink on plywood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 75 x 48 x 1/2 in. (190.5 x 121.9 x 1.3 cm)
- Place used
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- African American - Latinx Solidarity
- Poor People's Campaign
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- Art
- Black geographies
- Black power
- Freedom
- Justice
- Local and regional
- Men
- Poverty
- Race relations
- Resistance
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Women
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2012.110.7
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5894b8783-7908-4bd9-9532-74e0189477ed
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