Our Eyes Were Covered
Daniel A. Heyman, American, born 1963
March 2006
Drypoint on Rives BFK paper
19/30
Plate: 15 5/8 × 11 5/8 in. (39.7 × 29.6 cm)
Sheet (Irreg.): 26 7/8 × 22 5/16 in. (68.3 × 56.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Anonymous Fund #144
© Daniel A. Heyman
2007.66.6
Portfolio / Series Title
Amman series of The Abu Ghraib Project
Printer
Cindi Ettinger | C. R. Ettinger Studio, Philadelphia
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right margin: D[illegible] 2006; numbered, in graphite, lower left margin: 19/30; titled and inscribed, in plate, upper left to right: OUR EYES WERE COVERED WITH PLASTIC WRAPS AND / GOGGLES AND MOVED tO SC. WE WERE ASKED TO UNDRESS, / AND STAYED UNDER THE HOT SUN FOR HOURS HAND- / CUFFED. / WE WERE NOT GUILTY OF ANYTHING. IF I HAD DONE / SOMETHING, I WOULD / HAVE BEEN PROUD, / BUT WE HAD NOT / DONE ANYTHING.; inscribed, in plate, lower left: BORN 12 JANUARY 1973 / ARRESTED 21 MAY [inscription oriented horizontally, with left at lower center and right at center]; inscribed, in plate, lower left corner: 1608[backwards 7]9 [inscription oriented horizontally with right at bottom edge] Embossed, lower right corner: [insignia: C [symbol] [three horizontal lines stacked vertically], with arc above and below] Watermark, lower right: BFK RIVES
Course History
FREN 7, French Graphic Novels, Annabelle Cone, Spring 2013
ENVS 80, Writing Our Way Home: The Writing That Sustains Us, Terry Tempest Williams, Spring 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I-Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2014
THEA 10.1, Human Rights and Performance, Laura Edmondson, Spring 2014
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014
THEA 10.1, COLT 34.2, Human Rights and Performance, Laura Edmondson, Fall 2014
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 47, Bearing Witness, The Abu Ghraib Project by Daniel Heyman, Kristin Monahan Garcia, MALS 2005, Assistant Curator of Academic and Student Programming and John Mathias, Class of 2011, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 5, 2008-February 1, 2009. [Exhibited in conjunction with Dartmouth College's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration and its 2009 theme, "Getting to the Mountaintop: Moving through Conflict toward Reconciliation."
Word and Image in Contemporary Art, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 26-August 4, 2013.
Publication History
Kristin Monahan Gracia and John Mathias, A Space for Dialogue 47, Bearing Witness, The Abu Ghraib Project by Daniel Heyman, A Space for Dialogue 47, Bearing Witness, The Abu Ghraib Project by Daniel Heyman, Kristin Monahan Garcia, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2009, ill. cover page.
Provenance
The artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; sold to the present collection, 2007.
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