King Family, Atlanta (April 5, 1968 after Coretta Scott King and her children returned from Memphis with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s body)
Harry Benson, Scottish and American, born 1929
negative 1968; print 2014
Archival pigment print
5/35
Image: 19 1/2 × 13 3/4 in. (49.5 × 34.9 cm)
Sheet: 22 × 17 in. (55.9 × 43.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Harry and Gigi Benson
2014.74
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right, in black ink: Harry Benson, inscribed, lower left, in black ink: King Family Atlanta 1968; inscribed, lower center, in black ink: 5/35;
Course History
WRIT 5, Democracy in America, Wendy Piper, Winter 2015
HIST 10.04/AAAS 20.02, Dartmouth Black Lives, Julia Rabig and Darryl Barthe, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
Art of the Civil Rights Movement, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper Wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 23-November 30, 2014.
Provenance
The artist and his wife, Gigi Benson, New York, New York; given to present collection, 2014.
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