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American Monuments

Jefferson Davis Monument #1, Richmond, Virginia

2020
(American, b. 1982)
America
inkjet print
Image: 36.5 x 45.7 cm (14 3/8 x 18 in.); Paper: 40.8 x 50.8 cm (16 1/16 x 20 in.)
The Julius L. Greenfield Photography Acquisition Fund 2021.106.5
Edition: edition 2/15
Location: not on view
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The Confederacy collapsed in 1865, but the memorials to it lining Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, were built between 1890 and 1929.

Description

This monument to Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), president of the Confederate States of America, was unveiled in 1907. The 13 columns represent the Confederacy’s 13 states. The bronze female figure atop the column is Vindicatrix, “the emblem of Southern womanhood” and a symbol of the vindication—or clearing of blame—of the Confederacy. Below her is a statue of Davis. Note the dark clouds in Kris Graves’s “before” picture of this monument and see his “after” picture by searching 2021.
Jefferson Davis Monument #1, Richmond, Virginia

Jefferson Davis Monument #1, Richmond, Virginia

2020

Kris Graves

(American, b. 1982)
America

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