Accession Number
1991/2.84

Title
Kent State

Artist(s)
Richard Hamilton

Object Creation Date
1970

Medium & Support
screenprint on paper

Dimensions
28 11/16 in. x 40 1/16 in. ( 72.8 cm x 101.7 cm )

Credit Line
Gift of Graham and Marianne Smith

Label copy
In "Richard Hamilton, Collected Works," the artist notes that the Kent State print is, "the most onerous of all the prints I have made. Without anticipating the problem, I chose to layer many transpaernt colors over each other to build the image from the overlaps and fringes. It was an absurd procedure. The more layers of pigment the longer the drying time - it didn't take long to discover that we were manufacturing fly papers" (94).
"The Kent State student depicted, Dean Kahler, was not killed. He suffered spinal injuries and is paralysed. The text that I orginially wrote for the subject avoids any mention of the horrible circumstances of that day in May" (94).

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Political and social issues
death
man
modern and contemporary art
reclining