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Artist Benny Andrews (American, 1930-2006)

Date1972

DimensionsSheet: 20 1/4 x 15 in. (514 x 381 mm);
Plate: 11 x 7 1/2 in. (280 x 191 mm)

MediumEtching

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner

Object number

2009.353

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Label TextBorn 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.Exhibition History

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