Head Dressed, Bob Faust; Landfall Press; Nick Cave

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Landfall Press, printer
active 2004–present
Nick Cave, artist
born 1959
Bob Faust, artist
Head Dressed, 2019
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: color lithograph
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 686 x 456 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 29 13/16 x 20 11/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 758 x 525 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 29 13/16 x 20 11/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 36 x 30 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2020.0048
Not on display

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One History, Two Versions
“These works remind me of flowers on a casket.” —Doris Ricks, Vice President of the Lawrence Branch of the NAACP Emmett Till grew up in Chicago, a progressive city with a growing Black population. Before a trip in 1955 to visit family in Mississippi, Emmett’s mother warned him that race relations were more tense in the South. During the visit, Emmett whistled at a white woman and returned to Chicago in a casket. Over 100,000 people attended his funeral and witnessed his beaten body in the open casket that his mother insisted on.

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