Untitled (Speech/Crowd) #3, 2000
- Artist
Glenn Ligon
- Title
Untitled (Speech/Crowd) #3
- Date
2000
- Medium
Silkscreen, coal dust, oil stick, and glue on paper
- Dimensions
46 × 60 × 1 1/2 in. (116.8 × 152.4 × 3.8 cm) Other: 40 × 54 in. (101.6 × 137.2 cm)
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase made possible by gifts from Gayle G. Greenhill, The Ehrenkranz Family Foundation, The Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, Inc., and an anonymous donor in honor of Raymond J. McGuire
- Object Number
2001.5
The 1995 Million Man March brought Black men from across the United States together in Washington, DC, to present to the world a fuller picture of what and who a Black man is. Untitled (Speech/Crowd) #3 draws its text from a speech given at the march and its imagery from a black-and-white photograph of the attendees. Visibility and legibility are often themes explored in Ligon’s text-based works through the interplay of text and choice of background. Here, text and image make each other difficult to read, and the work focuses instead on varied densities of black tone that suggest the march’s mission of gathering diverse Black perspectives.
Untitled (Speech/Crowd) #3, 2000
- Artist
Glenn Ligon
- Title
Untitled (Speech/Crowd) #3
- Date
2000
- Medium
Silkscreen, coal dust, oil stick, and glue on paper
- Dimensions
46 × 60 × 1 1/2 in. (116.8 × 152.4 × 3.8 cm) Other: 40 × 54 in. (101.6 × 137.2 cm)
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase made possible by gifts from Gayle G. Greenhill, The Ehrenkranz Family Foundation, The Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, Inc., and an anonymous donor in honor of Raymond J. McGuire
- Object Number
2001.5
The 1995 Million Man March brought Black men from across the United States together in Washington, DC, to present to the world a fuller picture of what and who a Black man is. Untitled (Speech/Crowd) #3 draws its text from a speech given at the march and its imagery from a black-and-white photograph of the attendees. Visibility and legibility are often themes explored in Ligon’s text-based works through the interplay of text and choice of background. Here, text and image make each other difficult to read, and the work focuses instead on varied densities of black tone that suggest the march’s mission of gathering diverse Black perspectives.