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Death and Taxes

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Object Details

Designer

Micki McGee

Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

Ad for public art event with images of a tank, rockets, airplane, soldier, a coffin, arrows leading to a family, dollars with arrow to figures at a table, (Uncle Sam's hand offering dollars to family). New York protesting using taxes for war For Political Art Documentation/Distribution and Gallery 345, NYC. Text upper margin: DEATH AND TAXES APRIL 1-18. A public art event sponsored by P.A.D. (Political Art Documentation/Distribution) in Manhattan and Brooklyn / Including Posters, performances, films, graffiti and outdoor environments to protest the use of taxes for war and the economic cutbacks to the cities. [Other text includes locations in New York: 13 sites and 5 special event dates and locations]

Credit Line

Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs

Date

ca. 1980

Accession Number

1993-53-87

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

graphic design

Object Name

Poster

Type

Poster

Medium

Lithograph on paper

Dimensions

28 x 43.3 cm (11 in. x 17 1/16 in.)

made in

USA

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e18edf09-5cb2-46b3-a8f3-0206c87275c8

Record ID

chndm_1993-53-87

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