The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Tuskeegee Confederate Monument, Alabama
2020
(American, b. 1982)
Image: 36.5 x 45.7 cm (14 3/8 x 18 in.); Paper: 40.7 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
When Tuskegee Confederate Monument was erected in 1906, the county’s population was 82% Black; it is now 97% Black.Description
When Graves photographed the monument in Tuskegee, the statue of a Confederate soldier had already been removed from view through the use of a blue tarp installed by the city government. The monument had been painted with Civil Rights protest graffiti in 1966, 2015, and 2017. Its owners, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, had stopped having it cleaned. When more graffiti appeared in June 2020, the city enshrouded it and began looking for a way to relocate it.- 2020-2021Kris Graves (the artist) [1982-], New York, NY2021(Sasha Wolf Projects, New York, NY)June 7, 2021The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2021.106.10