Exchange: W20 Ellsworth - AAS 248 - Crime, Race, and the Law

W20 Ellsworth - AAS 248 - Crime, Race, and the Law

A group of prisoners, naked, standing in a line next to a line of officers. They are in the hallway between the cells.

Danny Lyon
Building Shakedown, from "Conversations with the Dead"
gelatin silver print on paper
11 x 14 in. ( 27.94 x 35.56 cm )
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80

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An officer on top of a horse wearing a white cowboy hat. There is an African-American man standing next to him handing him water.

Danny Lyon
Watering a Boss, from "Conversations with the Dead"
gelatin silver print on paper
11 x 14 in. ( 27.94 x 35.56 cm )
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80

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Howard Bingham
Cleveland, from "Detroit Focus 2000"
black and white photograph on paper
14 in. x 11 in. ( 35.5 cm x 27.9 cm )
Gift of Detroit Focus 2000, and partial purchase with funds from the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund

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John Curry
Manhunt, from "The American Scene, Series 2"
lithograph on paper
9 13/16 x 12.9 in. (24.92 x 32.86 cm)
Museum Purchase

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Russell Limbach
Reviewing Stand, from "The American Scene, Series 2"
lithograph on paper
9.9 x 14 5/16 in. (25.24 x 36.35 cm)
Museum Purchase

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Image of a book lying open to a page featuring a photo of the American flag hanging from a building. A newsclipping featuring a photo of children behind a barricade and an adult holding an American flag lies on the book across the open page.

Joanne Leonard
Flags
inkjet print on paper
24 in x 36 in (60.96 cm x 91.44 cm)
Gift of the artist

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Image of a book lying open to a page featuring a photo of a person being restrained by another person in riot gear. A newsclipping featuring Munch's Scream lies on the book across the open page.

Joanne Leonard
The Screams (Munch and Civil Rights)
inkjet print on paper
24 in x 36 in (60.96 cm x 91.44 cm);21 in x 31 in (53.34 cm x 78.74 cm)
Gift of the artist

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Image of a man wearing a wide-rimmed hat sitting amongst a crowd. He holds a bottle to his mouth and a satchel in front of him blocking most of the bottle.

Lisa Larsen
Untitled
gelatin silver print on paper
7 4/5 in x 7 ½ in (19.84 cm x 19.05 cm)
Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer

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A photograph of a group of four young men in football jerseys and casual attire walking down the street. Behind them are two steel rolling doors covered in graffiti.

Danny Lyon
Carlos Leaving the Football Game
gelatin silver print on paper
11 in x 14 in (27.94 cm x 35.56 cm)
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80

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A black and white photograph of two helmeted figures in the foreground, and a crowd of people gathered around cars and looking to the viewer's left. Buildings and gravel piles appear in the background.

Danny Lyon
An angry crowd forms in Cambridge
gelatin silver print on paper
11 in x 14 in (27.94 cm x 35.56 cm);8 ¾ in x 12 ⅞ in (22.23 cm x 32.7 cm)
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80

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Warrington Colescott
The Great Society 'Inner Core'
color etching on paper
22 1/2 x 30 1/8 in. (57 x 76.5 cm);17 7/8 x 18 in. (45.4 x 45.6 cm);22 1/2 x 30 1/8 in. (57 x 76.5 cm)
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection

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A "Norton Abrasives" wooden crate is filled with empty rusted gallon paint containers with dried paint inside. A cracked rearview mirror is attached to one side and an American flag is smushed into one side of the box. A small toy platypus sits inside one of the paint cans, although the platypus is moveable; instructions to museum state that museum staff can place platypus where they please.

Tyree Guyton
Untitled (Paint Cans)
paint cans, wooden crate, American flag, rearview mirror, and ceramic figurine
33 1/2 in x 28 1/8 in x 12 in (85.09 cm x 71.44 cm x 30.48 cm)
Gift of H. David Zucca

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