This object is currently on display in room 206 as part of Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection. There are 4 other images of this object. See our image rights statement.
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Poster, United States of Attica
This is a Poster. It was designed by Faith Ringgold. It is dated 1972 and we acquired it in 2022. Its medium is offset lithograph on paper. It is a part of the department.
In 1971, thousands of prisoners at Attica Prison in New York participated in what became known as the Attica Uprising, which soon became the deadliest in United States history. The following year, Faith Ringgold published The United States of Attica as a “map of American violence.” Ringgold’s hand-drawn rendering of the contiguous 48 United States enumerates uprisings and acts of violence that occurred in this country since the colonial era.
It is credited Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, and from the General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
Its dimensions are
H x W: 55.2 × 69.9 cm (21 3/4 × 27 1/2 in.)
Cite this object as
Poster, United States of Attica; Designed by Faith Ringgold (American, b. 1930); offset lithograph on paper; H x W: 55.2 × 69.9 cm (21 3/4 × 27 1/2 in.); Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, and from the General Acquisitions Endowment Fund; 2022-20-3
