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Censored
Artist
Elizabeth Layton
(United States, 1909 - 1993)
Publisher
Lawrence Lithography Workshop
(United States, established 1979)
Date1989
MediumLithograph and colored pencil on paper
DimensionsIMAGE/SHEET: 29 7/8 x 22 1/4 in.
IMAGE/SHEET: 759 x 565 mm
IMAGE/SHEET: 759 x 565 mm
Object TypePrints
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, acquisition made possible with funds provided by the Friends of Art
Edition25/83
Object number1990.2
On View
Not on viewThis old woman is bound and gagged and can no longer draw. Her principles have been X-ed out. I guarantee you she feels like a zilch. In the background, from top left, counter-clockwise: Interstate 70 billboard art by Tillie Woodward, of a Nazi soldier hanging two Russian resistance fighters, which was censored and plastered over June 5, 1985; the Goddess of Liberty falling broken in China’s Tiananmen Square; a pile of the old woman’s drawings torn up and censored; quotation, “The first exception (to the First Amendment) will not be the last”—Ira Glasser, sheaf of CLASSIFIED papers, beginning and ending with LIED. (1995)
Exhibitions
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1950, printed 2017
2017.379