Arise!

Fred Wilson, American, born 1954

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2004

Spitbite aquatint with direct gravure on wove paper

7/25

Plate: 19 15/16 × 23 15/16 in. (50.6 × 60.8 cm)

Sheet: 30 3/4 × 34 in. (78.1 × 86.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Sondra and Charles Gilman Jr. Foundation Fund

© Fred Wilson

PR.2004.26

Publisher

Crown Point Press, San Francisco

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

21st century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Native American

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, lower right: Fred Wilson '04; numbered, in graphite, lower left: 7/25; inscribed, in print, in image, center: Haul ass, the black man is on the march!; inscribed, in print, in image,lower center: I hate you for filling my eyes with sweetness.; inscribed, in print, in image, lower left: Come if we must die let us meet death the noblest way.; inscribed, in print, in image, lower left: The tragedy will lie in the color black.; inscribed, in print, in image, above center: Arise, black vengeance, from hollow hell!; inscribed, in print, in image, upper right: Fellow critters: I'se ordered here to say / you must stop dat damn noise dare.; inscribed, in print, in image, upper right: I fear your sparkling darkness.; inscribed, in print, in image, upper right: We're black too...; inscribed, in print, in image, upper right: You lie devil, you lie!; inscribed, in print, in image, upper right: Goodness, how dark it is.| Embossed, in sheet, lower right corner: Crown Point Press / Case Hudson

Course History

SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012

SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013

SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, II, III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2013

SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012

SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I-Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2014

SOCY 7.2, Race and Ethnicity, Emily Walton, Spring 2014

SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014

ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Winter 2015

ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States. Mary Coffey, Winter 2015

SOCY 7.1, Race and Ethnicity, Emily Walton, Winter 2015

Gallery Talk: The Embodiment of Language, Winter 2020

AAAS 88.19, Contemporary African-American Artists, Michael Chaney, Summer 2021

ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 74, Text as Image / Image as Text: Narratives of African American History and Identity, Emma Routhier, Class of 2012, Levinson Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 3-December 2, 2012.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4-December 11, 2005.

Gesture, Emotion, Shape: Sources of Abstraction by Philip Dytko, Class of 2017, Pauline Lewis, Class of 2016, and Amalia Siegel, Class of 2016, Art History 71: The American Century- Modern Art in the United States, Winter 2015, Mary Coffey, Class Project, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 14-July 12, 2015.

No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in conjunction with the Humanities Institute, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 6-December 9, 2007.

The Art of Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, Elevator Vestibule Installation, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-26, 2007.

The Embodiment of Language, First Floor Corridor, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-May 24, 2020.

Publication History

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.187, no.202.

Emma Routhier, A Space for Dialogue 74, Text as Image / Image as Text: Narratives of African American History and Identity, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2012, ill. cover.

Provenance

Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California; sold to present collection, 2004.

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