Elizabeth [Grandma] Layton

Censored
1989

A detailed pencil drawing featuring a caricatured figure with exaggerated facial features, wearing a coat covered in buttons with various slogans such as "FREE SPEECH," "RIGHT TO KNOW," and "YOU CAN'T GAG ART." The figure also has a black eye patch and a censored bar across the mouth. In the background, there's a framed picture with figures that appear to be from the French Revolution, and surrounding the main figure are torn pieces of paper with the word "CENSORED" and a map of the United States with an indictment paper pinned to it. Text on the right side of the drawing reads "The first exception to the First Amendment will not be the last. -Justice."

A detailed pencil drawing featuring a caricatured figure with exaggerated facial features, wearing a coat covered in buttons with various slogans such as "FREE SPEECH," "RIGHT TO KNOW," and "YOU CAN'T GAG ART." The figure also has a black eye patch and a censored bar across the mouth. In the background, there's a framed picture with figures that appear to be from the French Revolution, and surrounding the main figure are torn pieces of paper with the word "CENSORED" and a map of the United States with an indictment paper pinned to it. Text on the right side of the drawing reads "The first exception to the First Amendment will not be the last. -Justice."

Not on view

Date
1989

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph with colored pencil

Dimensions
Sheet: 30 × 22 3/8in. (76.2 × 56.8 cm) Image: 28 3/4 × 22 1/8in. (73 × 56.2 cm)

Accession number
2004.405

Edition
AP 1/9

Publication
Printed by Lawrence Lithography Workshop; published by Don Lambert

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Don Lambert

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/21401

Exhibitions

. . . as apple pie

June 8, 2012–June 9, 2013

Elizabeth [Grandma] Layton
3 works in the collection

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