Franklin and Chicago Streets, Minneapolis

1973

Nicholas Nixon

Associated Names
Nicholas Nixon

Artist, American, born 1947

The image displays a billboard featuring an artwork of a police officer giving artificial respiration to a child. The police officer is seen from the waist up, wearing a police uniform with a hat and gloves. The child, appearing limp in the officer's arms, is also visible from the waist up, wearing a striped shirt. On the right side of the billboard, the text "Some call him Pig!" is prominently displayed. In the background, there is a house with fire escape stairs, leafless trees, snow-covered ground, and a human shadow in the foreground.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joshua P. Smith, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, bottom right corner in graphite: (To Lee Witkin in friendship) / Nicholas Nixon / Franklin & Chicago Sts. / Minneapolis 1973; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 2003.24.36

Wikidata ID

Q64158533

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