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Artist: Benny Andrews (American, 1930-2006)
Date: 1972
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 1/4 x 15 in. (514 x 381 mm);
Plate: 11 x 7 1/2 in. (280 x 191 mm)
Medium: Etching
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner
Object number: 2009.353
Label Text:Born in Madison, Georgia, the son of tenant farmers, Benny Andrews spent much of his early life working on a cotton plantation. His schooling was sporadic, depending on the workload at home, but through hard work Andrews managed to graduate from high school and attend a state college. After service in the Air Force during the Korean War, Andrews used the G.I. Bill and received a small stipend from the state of Georgia to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Over his lifetime, his social concerns ranged from the civil rights struggle and the antiwar movement to the Holocaust, poverty, and the forced relocation of Native Americans.
Over his lifetime, his social concerns ranged from the civil rights struggle and the antiwar movement to the Holocaust, poverty, and the forced relocation of Native Americans.
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