American People Series #20: Die

Faith Ringgold · 1967

Here we have American People Series #20: Die — a painting by the American artist Faith Ringgold, nineteen sixty-seven. Ringgold was part of the feminist art movement. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days. You can pick out the dancing, and the group of people.

Medium Oil on canvas, two panels · Dimensions 72 × 144" (182.9 × 365.8 cm) · Credit Acquired through the generosity of The Modern Women's Fund, Ronnie F. Heyman, Eva and Glenn Dubin, Lonti Ebers, Michael S. Ovitz, Daniel and Brett Sundheim, and Gary and Karen Winnick

Hanging beside it in Gallery 420: Big Cry

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Street, Berlin, Grand Jazz Band (New Orleans), Untitled from the series Brooklyn Gang, Looking for Langston, Untitled