- Artist/Maker:
- Ben Shahn
- Bio:
- American, b. Lithuania, 1898-1969
- Printer:
- Meriden Gravure Company
- Title:
- Andrew Goodman
- Portfolio/Series:
- Human Relations Portfolio
- Date:
- 1965
- Medium:
- Screenprint on paper
- Dimensions:
- 21 7/8 × 16 7/8 in. (55.6 × 42.9 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Kristie A. Jayne Fund
- Accession Number:
- 1999-169.2
- Copyright:
- Art © Estate of Ben Shahn/Licensed by _VAGA_, New York, NY
On View
On the night of June 21, 1964, civil right workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi. After a two-month search by the F.B.I. the bodies of the three young men were discovered at a nearby dam site where they had been buried following their murder by members of the local Ku Klux Klan. Produced by Ben Shahn as a portfolio for the Human Relations Council of Greater New Haven, Connecticut, these portraits reflect the artist’s desire to memorialize the three slain civil right workers and his lifelong commitment to social justice.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.