<I>Faena 2 - The Killing of Clifford Glover</I>
date: label: Date
content: April, 16, 1976
name: label: Created by
content: Ed Love
label: Subject of
content: Clifford Glover, American, 1963 - 1973
notes: label: Caption
content: Ed Love created monuments in chrome and steel, inspired by African masks and African American and African diaspora traditions. He dedicated artworks to Egyptian gods and goddesses, jazz musicians, and heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. Here, Love’s work takes a critical turn, honoring Clifford Glover, a 10-year-old boy who was killed by undercover police officers in Queens, New York, in 1973. Love welded chrome into an abstracted representation of a bull’s head and titled the piece Faena. In the Spanish bullfighting tradition, this word indicates the final wounds inflicted by the matador on the bull prior to its death. This language and imagery symbolize the violence and tragedy of race-related killings in the United States.
label: Description
content: A welded metal sculpture consisting of a top section in the form of an abstracted bull’s head, mounted atop a single, bent steel pillar. The figural portion is composed of chrome or a chrome-plated metal and has six appendages emanating from a bisected shield shape. The two center appendages, forming the base of the head, are rectangular, mounted one over the other, and have a zig-zag welding marks. Above this base are two curved appendages, the horns, that extend from overhead and protrude forward. The bottom two appendages, representing the bull’s shoulders, extend out from the sides and curve downwards. The abstracted bull’s head is welded to a long, rectangular steel post. The post bends just below center where a second piece of rectangular steel intersects and extends forward to meet the floor just in front of the main post, which attaches to a square base. Etched into the metal at the proper right “shoulder” is an inscription with the title, date, and artist’s signature: [Maximum Security Series / Faena 2 -The Killing of Clifford Glover / 4/16/76 / Love].
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Abstraction
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Children
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: Police brutality
label: Topic
content: Race discrimination
label: Topic
content: Violence
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
label: Exhibition
content: Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 052
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Joel and Zoë Dictrow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.18
objectType: label: Type
content: sculpture
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Estate of Ed Love, Courtesy the Kravets Wehby Gallery
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: chrome and steel
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 67 × 21 × 38 in. (170.2 × 53.3 × 96.5 cm)