{"data":{"id":"10301","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":10301,"topgoose_id":966,"portfolio_id":10295,"tms_id":10301,"title":"Birmingham Race Riot","display_artist_text":"Andy Warhol","display_date":"1964","accession_number":"96.53.5","dimensions":"Sheet: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)","medium":"Screenprint","department":"collection","classification":"Prints","credit_line":"Transfer, from the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Special Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":10295,"portfolio":"Ten Works by Ten Painters, The Wadsworth Atheneum","edition":"102/500","publication_info":"Printed by Ives-Sillman, Inc.; printed by Sirocco Screenprints, Inc.; published by Wadsworth Atheneum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndy Warhol, \u003cem\u003eBirmingham Race Riot\u003c/em\u003e, 1964. Screenprint, sheet: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Transfer, from the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Special Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art 96.53.5. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eAndy Warhol made very few alterations to the source material for this screenprint—a photograph from \u003ci\u003eLife \u003c/i\u003emagazine (in fact, the photographer would later sue the artist for unauthorized use of his work). Warhol simply enlarged and reversed the original image, which was published in a May 1963 photo essay about police dogs attacking civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama. Although several of Warhol’s series of the early 1960s touched on current events, the subject of \u003ci\u003eBirmingham Race Riot\u003c/i\u003e (and thirteen related silkscreen paintings, made subsequently) is uncommonly political for him. Yet despite the photograph’s disturbing depiction of an African American man besieged by police dogs, Warhol’s deadpan presentation of the appropriated photograph makes the tone of his work ambiguous and difficult to gauge. \u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Police officers use batons while surrounding and striking a man as bystanders watch.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T15:31:58.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:20.138-05:00","images":[{"id":101136,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/10301/96_53_5_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"1384","type":"artist"}]}}}}