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David Hammons
Injustice Case1970

Not on view
Vertical print of a figure seated in a wooden chair, body and head completely wrapped in transparent plastic, bordered by red, white, and blue American flag stripes and stars
Mixed-media work combining a large photographic print and an American flag strip along the top and left edges. A figure in jeans sits in profile on a wooden chair, wrapped tightly in transparent plastic sheeting from head to toe, against a white background.
Artist or Maker
David Hammons
United States, Illinois, Springfield, born 1943
Title
Injustice Case
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1970
Medium
Body print and American flag
Dimensions
Sheet: 63 x 40 1/2 in. (160.02 x 102.87 cm) Framed: 69 × 47 1/4 × 2 1/4 in. (175.26 × 120.02 × 5.72 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
M.71.7
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Ho, Melissa, Thomas Crow, Erica Levin, Katherine Markoski, Mignon Nixon, and Martha Rosler. Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian American Art Museum, in association with Princeton University Press, 2019.
  • Kim, Christine Y., and Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews, editors. Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books-D.A.P., 2023.