<I>T-Shirt</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1973
name: label: Created by
content: Sam Gilliam, American, 1933 - 2022
label: Printed by
content: Lou Stovall, American, 1937 - 2023
label: Commissioned by
content: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, American, founded 1965
notes: label: Description
content: A silkscreen (serigraph) print “T-Shirt” by Sam Gilliam for the portfolio “Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law, Inc.” organized by Lou Stovall. The print is on a gray background and uses green, blue, and red ink. Gilliam used an actual t-shirt as the stencil, creating a slightly wrinkled shirt outlined in blue at the center. A blue field covers most of the body of the shirt, as well as the bottom of the print and the upper right corner, leaving a slim margin of grey along the right edge from beneath the t-shirt's sleeve to the bottom right corner. Splattered green covers the top left corner and accents around the t-shirt, with a swath of red at the bottom right. The t-shirt’s garment tag is red with white text reading [EQUAL / EMPLOYMENT / OPPORTUNITY / IS THE LAW].
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Labor
label: Topic
content: Law
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: Social reform
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1969-2001
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law, Inc.
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dr. L. Carol Wharton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.86
objectType: label: Type
content: screen prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Sam Gilliam Estate
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm)