A crowd watches the demonstrators returning to the city hall steps, Danville, Virginia

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A crowd watches the demonstrators returning to the city hall steps, Danville, Virginia
A crowd watches the demonstrators returning to the city hall steps, Danville, Virginia
Artist/Maker Danny Lyon American, born 1942
Date1963; printed 2015
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 3/4 × 12 7/8 in. (22.2 × 32.7 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2018.12.75
Not on view
Collections
Published ReferencesIllustrated in Danny Lyon, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 65; Lorraine Hansberry, The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964), 68.

Additional Details

Provenance 2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Markings Verso (stamp, black ink with pencil): "Printer K [in pencil] / BLEAK BEAUTY / Picture Date 1962-1964 [in pencil] / Print Date 2015 [in pencil]" on verso at lower right in black ink.
Published References Illustrated in Danny Lyon, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 65; Lorraine Hansberry, The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964), 68.
Signature Verso, lower center (pencil): "Danny Lyon"
Inscribed Verso, lower left (pencil): "DLC-14"
Photograph by John Bentham.
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