Copied
Asco, Seymour Rosen, Asco's Stations of the Cross, 1971, printed 2018, gelatin silver print, 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Frank K. Ribelin Endowment, 2019.3.1, © 1971, SPACES- Saving and Preserving Arts & Cultural Environments
Copied
Artwork Details
- Title
- Asco’s Stations of the Cross
- Artists
- Asco
- Date
- 1971, printed 2018
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
- Copyright
- © 1971, SPACES- Saving and Preserving Arts & Cultural Environments
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through the Frank K. Ribelin Endowment
- Mediums Description
- gelatin silver print
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Figure group
- Cityscape — street
- Object Number
- 2019.3.1
Artwork Description
Mexican American neighborhood. One year earlier, Whittier Boulevard had been the site of the National Chicano Moratorium March--the largest war protest organized by a minority group, and one that called out the disproportionate burden borne by Americans of color on the front lines.
Exhibitions
March 15, 2019–August 18, 2019
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 makes vivid an era in which artists endeavored to respond to the turbulent times and openly questioned issues central to American civic life.