Mrs. Rosa Parks, Montgomery

© Estate of Harvey Dinnerstein. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for rep…
© Estate of Estate of Harvey Dinnerstein
Mrs. Rosa Parks, Montgomery
© Estate of Harvey Dinnerstein. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Mrs. Rosa Parks, Montgomery

Date1956
Artist (American artist, 1928–2022)
MediumGraphite and pastel on gray laid paper
Dimensionscomposition: 11 15/16 × 11 in. (30.3 × 27.9 cm)
sheet: 15 1/16 × 12 7/16 in. (38.3 × 31.6 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1993
Object number1993-14
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label Textn 1956, New York artist Harvey Dinnerstein and his fellow artist Burton Silverman recorded events of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, initiated when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man on the racially segregated city bus system. Together Dinnerstein and Silverman made over 90 reportorial drawings of the activities and people involved in the Boycott, including the twenty‑six year old Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Several of the drawings were published in magazines and exhibited in museums. The artists stated: “Our decision to record the events, as artists, was motivated in part by the virtual absence of photographic recording of the Boycott. We felt that this was the first real opportunity to show the efficacy of the artist's eye in evoking the emotional as well as factual realities of an important human event.”

The December 1, 1955, arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give her bus seat to a white person, and her conviction four days later for having violated Alabama's segregation laws, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
© Estate of Harvey Dinnerstein. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for rep…
Harvey Dinnerstein
1956
© Estate of Harvey Dinnerstein. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for rep…
Harvey Dinnerstein
1956
© Estate of Harvey Dinnerstein. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for rep…
Harvey Dinnerstein
1956
© Estate of Harvey Dinnerstein. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for rep…
Harvey Dinnerstein
1956
© Estate of Harvey Dinnerstein. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for rep…
Harvey Dinnerstein
1956
© Estate of Harvey Dinnerstein. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for rep…
Harvey Dinnerstein
1956
© Estate of Harvey Dinnerstein. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for rep…
Harvey Dinnerstein
1956
© Estate of Harvey Dinnerstein. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for rep…
Harvey Dinnerstein
1956
© Estate of Harvey Dinnerstein. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for rep…
Harvey Dinnerstein
1956