The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
Arrested for demonstrating in Americus, Georgia, teenage girls are kept in a stockade in the countryside near Leesburg. Some had been in the stockade for a few days, others had been there for three weeks. They have no beds and no working sanitary facilities. I make pictures through the broken glass of the barred windows
1963, printed 2015
(American, b. 1942)
Image: 22.3 x 32.7 cm (8 3/4 x 12 7/8 in.); Paper: 27.8 x 35.3 cm (10 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2016.495
Location: Not on view
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2016.495