The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Demolition Men's Headquarters, 38 Ferry Street
1966–67
(American, 1942-)
Image: 30.9 x 24.4 cm (12 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.); Paper: 35.5 x 27.7 cm (14 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 50.4 x 40.2 cm (19 13/16 x 15 13/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2013.138
Location: not on view
Description
In his book The Destruction of Lower Manhattan, Lyon described the demolition men, or “housewreckers,” as “Slavs, Italians, blacks from the South, American workers of 1967 drinking pop-top soda on their beams at lunchtime, risking their lives for $5.50 an hour, pulling apart brick by brick and beam by beam the work of other American workers who once stood on the same walls and held the same bricks, then new, so long ago.”- Danny Lyon: The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-October 7, 2018).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2013.138