The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Jefferson Davis Monument #1, Richmond, Virginia
2020
(American, b. 1982)
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.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
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.- 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/2021.106.5