<I>New Age of Slavery</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2014
name: label: Created by
content: Patrick Campbell, American
notes: label: Caption
content: Patrick Campbell’s painting, with its bold stripes featuring bodies hanging from nooses, and cracked stars with people falling, pleading, or wielding weapons in between, went viral in December 2014. Earlier that month, a New York grand jury ruled “no reasonable cause” to indict the officer whose chokehold on Eric Garner led to Garner’s death. This decision came on the heels of a grand jury decision in November not to charge the officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In response, Campbell used art to illustrate his disbelief. When he posted the image on social media, others who shared his disappointment and anger spread the image across the internet. By the time Freddie Gray protests ignited in Baltimore in April 2015, Campbell’s watercolor was a symbol of a movement.
label: Description
content: A watercolor painting of the American flag, in which bodies are depicted hanging within the red stripes.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Lynching
label: Topic
content: Race discrimination
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Resistance
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 2001-
label: Topic
content: Violence
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
label: Movement
content: Black Lives Matter
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.99
objectType: label: Type
content: watercolors
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Patrick Campbell Art and Illustration
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22 1/2 × 15 1/4 in. (57.2 × 38.7 cm)