Object Details
Artist
David Levinthal, born San Francisco, CA 1949
Exhibition Label
The legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral took place on October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona. A group of lawmen, including the Earp brothers--Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan--and Doc Holliday, faced off against an outlaw gang who called themselves the Cowboys. Even though the event lasted a mere thirty seconds and was a rare occurrence in the West, it continues to resonate in popular imagination, inspiring countless cinematic treatments and daily reenactments in Tombstone. Levinthal's own restaging calls attention to the mythic status of the historic gunfight, which came to epitomize the "wildness" of the Old West.
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Donald Standford Rosenfeld, Jr.
Copyright
© 2014, David Levinthal
Date
2014
Object number
2017.41.28
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Photography
Medium
inkjet print
Dimensions
17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm)
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Department
Graphic Arts
Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Topic
Figure group\male
Western
State of being\illness\wound
Occupation\service\policeman
State of being\evil\violence
Architecture Exterior\farm\stable
Object\weapon\gun
Occupation\crime\criminal
Landscape\Arizona\Tombstone
Link to Original Record
Record ID
saam_2017.41.28