Untitled (Crowd / The Fire Next Time

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Untitled (Crowd / The Fire Next Time

Artist Glenn Ligon (American, born 1960)

Publisher Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.

Printer Dusica Kirjakovic

Printer Marc Lepson

Date2000

DimensionsImage: 12 x 18 in. (305 x 459mm)
sheet: 19 3/4 x 27 3/4 in. (500 x 705mm)

MediumScreenprint with black ink and coal dust on paper

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineWinthrop H. Perry Fund

Object number

2002.20

Not on View

Descriptionprinted using water-based black ink and coal dust on white Magnani Incisione paper. The text is a short section from The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin. Signed in pencil l.r.: Glenn Ligon; and numbered 1.1.: 15/30. This is a screen print, printed using water-based black ink and coal dust on white Magnani Incisione paper. The text is a short section from The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin. Signed in pencil l.r.: Glenn Ligon; and numbered 1.1.: 15/30.

Label TextGlenn Ligon is a conceptual artist who chooses to create work in black and white, through many media, as a way of pointing directly at racial stereotypes and expectations. This print features a shot of the Million Man March of black activists in Washington, D.C. in 1995, screenprinted from a photograph. Over the print is a quote, written in coal dust, from James Baldwin’s essay The Fire Next Time (1963): “Something in me wondered, ‘What will happen to all that beauty?’”Published Referencescf. Roberta Smith, "Lack of Location Is My Location," The New York Times (June 16, 1991), 27. cf. Peter Schjeldahl, "Missing: The Pleasure Principle," The Village Voice (March 16, 1993), 34. cf. "An Interview with Glenn Ligon and Gary Garrels, March 15, 1996," Glenn Ligon New Work, exhibition brochure, unpag. cf. "Working Prof," ART ON PAPER 4, no. 6, July-August 2000, p. 50. cf. "Commemorating Black History Month," Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute bulletin, February 2001. cf. New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Digital: Printmaking Now, 2001, pp. 13, 68.Exhibition History

Toledo Museum of Art, Word Play, October 16, 2009- February 7, 2010.

Toledo Museum of Art, People Get Ready: 50 Years of Civil Rights, June 27-September 21, 2014.

Toledo Museum of Art, PICTURE ID: Contemporary African American Works on Paper, March 14-June 14, 2020.