In Birmingham Jail

1963

Warrington Colescott

Associated Names
Warrington Colescott

Artist, American, 1921 - 2018

The image contains a series of panels with vertical and horizontal lines creating rectangular shapes in an abstract composition. Figures, some resembling human forms, are depicted in the scene, appearing confined or grouped closely together. The central figures wear uniforms resembling those of police or security personnel, suggesting authority. The combination of abstract patterns and recognizable forms conveys a sense of containment.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color hardground and softground etching, aquatint, and drypoint on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 45.09 × 60.33 cm (17 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.115.12

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chapin 2010, no. 73

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.); Bob Stana and Tom Judy, Washington, D.C.; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

2010

  • Chapin, Mary Weaver. The Prints of Warrington Colescott: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948-2008. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010, p. 111, no. 73.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Artists Proof; lower center in graphite: "In Birmingham Jail'; lower right in graphite: Warrington Colescott 1964

Watermarks

A. Millbourn & Co.

Wikidata ID

Q77015377

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