Sue Coe

Exxon Gets Away with Murder

1990

Two tall, emaciated birds stand on a shoreline near a crescent moon and distant buildings.

Two tall, emaciated birds stand on a shoreline near a crescent moon and distant buildings.

Not on view

Date
1990

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 18 7/8 × 11 9/16 in. (47.9 × 29.4 cm) Plate: 5 5/16 × 3 7/16 in. (13.5 × 8.7 cm)

Accession number
2002.306.13

Edition
64/200

Publication
Printed by Steve Murray; published by Sue Coe

Credit line
Gift of Judith Alexander

Rights and reproductions
© 1989 Sue Coe

API
artworks/20998

Part of a series:
related to Porkopolis
14 works

A dense flock of sheep fills the field with a distant factory and smokestacks on the horizon.

Two tall, emaciated birds stand on a shoreline near a crescent moon and distant buildings.

A large grotesque head expels a stream of small animals and people toward a pile of livestock.

A lone cow stands behind barbed wire in a snowy field with utility poles and its shadow.

A herd of cows grazing in a wide field with mountains in the background.

Small dark etching showing rows of hanging carcasses above three silhouetted figures pointing upward.

A farmer walks with pigs toward a moonlit hill as birds circle overhead.

A man holds a smoking test tube while pigs surround him under a "Pig Improvement Co." sign.

A person collapses under a single hanging light as a line of shrouded figures watches.

A large booted figure looms over three pigs, one pig looking up nervously.

Sue Coe
25 works in the collection, 4 exhibitions

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