Maypole-War
Date2007
Artist
Nancy Spero
(American painter and collagist, 1926–2009)
Printer/Printmaker
Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions
MediumDigital print with hand lithography
Dimensions12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Danielle Rice in memory of Anne d'Harnoncourt and Sylvia Sleigh, 2010
Object number2010-30.16
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextFrom 1966–1970, Nancy Spero produced War Series: Bombs and Helicopters, a pictorial response to the deep, personal anger she felt for the Vietnam War. Her challenging imagery combines expletives with phallic representations of weapons of mass destruction as a means to depict the atrocities of war. In Maypole War, the artist revisits this earlier series as a reaction to the Middle East conflicts in the mid-2000s.
Portfolio/Print/ photo/ drawing in portfolio
