The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 16, 2024
Untitled (52637)
1959
(American, b. 1933)
Paper: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.715
© Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
One of Davidson’s best-known series, Brooklyn Gang was inspired by a news story he read about a teenage gang called the Jokers.Description
“We used to hang out in [Brooklyn’s] Prospect Park all the time,” recalled Jokers member Bob Powers. “We did a lot of drinking and sleeping overnight in the park. . . . The cops with their bats would push us along, tell us to move. We were very defiant. If we moved, we moved ten feet. Then they had to tell us to move another ten feet. We’d kind of like move around in a circle and come back to where we originally started. The cops were mean at that time, but then we weren’t the best of kids either.”- Bruce Davidson: Brooklyn Gang. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 25, 2020-June 13, 2021).
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