The Band Played On
Date2007
Artist
May Stevens
(American painter and printmaker, 1924–2019)
Printer/Printmaker
Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions
MediumDigital print with hand lithography and gold dusting
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 number2010-30.17
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextA contributor to the first issue of the feminist art and politics journal published by the Heresies Collective, May Stevens has explored war, class, and social injustice in her figurative work. Her subject matter has included civil rights activists in the early 1960s, grotesque personifications of the Vietnam War, and powerful historical female figures, such as the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. The Band Played On is similar to a series of etchings Stevens complete in the late 1990s.
Portfolio/Print/ photo/ drawing in portfolio
