Sue Coe

Aids and the Federal Government

1990

A black and white print depicting a dramatic scene with the United States Capitol dome in the background and a foreground filled with numerous figures lying on the ground in various poses of distress. In the bottom left corner, a television set displays a pair of lips, and the text "Aids won't wait, the enemy is here not in Kuwait" is written below the image. The artist's signature, "Sue Coe '90," is visible in the lower right corner.

A black and white print depicting a dramatic scene with the United States Capitol dome in the background and a foreground filled with numerous figures lying on the ground in various poses of distress. In the bottom left corner, a television set displays a pair of lips, and the text "Aids won't wait, the enemy is here not in Kuwait" is written below the image. The artist's signature, "Sue Coe '90," is visible in the lower right corner.

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Date
1990

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photoetching

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 1/16 × 18 13/16 in. (33.2 × 47.8 cm) Image: 10 1/2 × 13 5/8 in. (26.7 × 34.6 cm)

Accession number
91.40

Edition
27/85

Edition: 83

Publication
Printed and published by Steve Murray; published by Sue Coe

Credit line
Gift of Kirby Gookin

Rights and reproductions
© 1990 Sue Coe

API
artworks/7749

Exhibitions

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

Aug 18, 2017–Aug 27, 2018
America Is Hard to See

May 1–Sept 27, 2015

Sue Coe
25 works in the collection, 4 exhibitions

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