Pro-Arts, Inc.

Peace Needs No Excuse!!
1970

Graphic artwork resembling the United States flag with a blue square in the upper left corner containing a circle of white stars, and horizontal red and white stripes filling the rest of the space. Below the flag, the words "PEACE" and "NO EXCUSE" are written in reverse as if reflected in a mirror, with the text "NEEDS NO EXCUSE" legible from the correct perspective. The bottom of the image includes a copyright notice for 1970 Pato Paez, Inc., Medina, Ohio, U.S.A., and a note stating "5% is in service, Vietnam."
Graphic artwork resembling the United States flag with a blue square in the upper left corner containing a circle of white stars, and horizontal red and white stripes filling the rest of the space. Below the flag, the words "PEACE" and "NO EXCUSE" are written in reverse as if reflected in a mirror, with the text "NEEDS NO EXCUSE" legible from the correct perspective. The bottom of the image includes a copyright notice for 1970 Pato Paez, Inc., Medina, Ohio, U.S.A., and a note stating "5% is in service, Vietnam."

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Date
1970

Classification
Prints

Medium
Offset lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 21 1/16 × 33 1/8in. (53.5 × 84.1 cm) Image: 20 5/16 × 31 7/8in. (51.6 × 81 cm)

Accession number
2017.10.7

Series
Daniel Wolf Collection of Protest Posters

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/56195

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