Unknown artist

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming...

1971

Woman kneels and cries beside a wounded student on the pavement after shootings at Kent State.

Woman kneels and cries beside a wounded student on the pavement after shootings at Kent State.

Not on view

Date
1971

Classification
Prints

Medium
Offset lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/16 × 14 in. (28.1 × 35.6 cm) Image: 11 1/16 × 14 in. (28.1 × 35.6 cm)

Accession number
2017.10.98

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/56286

Part of a series:
Daniel Wolf Collection of Protest Posters
323 works

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A person raises a rifle and lifts their arms in anguish beneath the word "Why?".

Soldier kneeling in a field raises a rifle and hands toward the sky under the word "Why?".

NOFX poster showing a giant clown-faced man holding balloons as children shout and chase him.

A soldier throws his rifle into the air with arms raised while the word "Why?" appears above.

A glowing neon green three-masted sailing ship titled "Ship of Love" floats on dark waters.

Devil points from flames as angel helps a person on a cloud; text wishes heaven before devil knows.

Two men in black-and-white striped prisoner outfits wave, each wearing political campaign buttons.

Official Nixon Countdown Calendar with grid overlaying a large portrait and yearly calendars 1973–1977.

Exhibitions

An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017

Aug 18, 2017–Aug 27, 2018

Unknown artist
148 works in the collection, 6 exhibitions

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