Untitled (Marchers Hold Signs "HONOR KING: END RACISM," at Dr. Martin Luther King's Memphis Funeral Procession, April 8, 1968)
Harry Benson, Scottish and American, born 1929
negative 1968; print 2014
Archival pigment print
5/35
Image: 13 1/2 × 20 in. (34.3 × 50.8 cm)
Sheet: 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased in memory of Edward A. Hansen, Member of the Board of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art, through a gift from his wife, Julia, his children, Victoria, Class of 1988 and Christopher, Class of 1985
2014.84.7
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Titled, numbered, and signed, beneath image, in black ink: MLKing March, Memphis 1968 5/35 Harry Benson
Course History
Gallery Talk: The Embodiment of Language, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
Art of the Civil Rights Movement, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 23, 2014-March 8, 2015.
The Embodiment of Language, First Floor Corridor, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-May 24, 2020.
Provenance
The artist (Harry Benson Ltd., New York, New York); sold to the present collection, 2014.
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