Untitled (Marchers at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Atlanta Funeral Procession Hold a Poster of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 9, 1968)

Harry Benson, Scottish and American, born 1929

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negative 1968; print 2014

Archival pigment print

5/35

Image: 14 1/2 × 20 in. (36.8 × 50.8 cm)

Sheet: 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased in memory of Edward A. Hansen, Member of the Board of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art, through a gift from his wife, Julia, his children, Victoria, Class of 1988 and Christopher, Class of 1985

2014.84.5

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Titled, numbered, and signed, beneath image, in black ink: Martin Luther King, Jr. Funeral, Atlanta 1968 5/35 Harry Benson

Provenance

The artist (Harry Benson Ltd., New York, New York); sold to the present collection, 2014.

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