Unknown artist

Give Peace A Chance

c. 1960–1970

Poster with large stylized text reading "Give Peace a Chance" against an orange background.

Poster with large stylized text reading "Give Peace a Chance" against an orange background.

Not on view

Date
c. 1960–1970

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 36 1/8 × 20 in. (91.8 × 50.8 cm) Image: 26 1/8 × 20 in. (66.4 × 50.8 cm)

Accession number
2017.10.223

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/56411

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

A large peace symbol with protest text about El Salvador and the bold word Resist.

A poster showing Earth above a presidential quote calling to consecrate the moment and preserve peace.

Five nude figures posed against a dark background to form the word "PEACE" with their bodies.

Two villagers hold long blades and a rifle while standing in tall grass.

Three armed Vietnamese fighters ready for battle with slogan declaring they will defeat American invaders.

Soldiers on a beach fire a mortar toward a distant coastal building amid palm trees.

A soldier raises his fist and holds a rifle while comrades advance through smoke.

Armed men confront and capture surprised civilians in a dimly lit room.

Three men with rifles leap over a wall during an armed confrontation near parked cars.

People fleeing past a damaged U.S. Army sign as soldiers move through tall grass.

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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