Michael Mergen
‘Bloody Sunday’ Attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge

‘Bloody Sunday’ Attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge

© Michael Mergen

‘Bloody Sunday’ Attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge
‘Bloody Sunday’ Attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge
ArtistAmerican, born 1978
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • ‘Bloody Sunday’ Attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge
  • from the series After Selma-to-Montgomery
Date2015
MediumInkjet print with applied crayon
DimensionsImage (Irregular): 26 11/16 × 40 1/4 in. (67.8 × 102.2 cm)
 Sheet: 31 7/8 × 44 1/8 in. (81 × 112 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Anne Wilkes Tucker in honor of Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Object number2018.183
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist, Farmville, Virginia; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Exhibition History“Marked Landscapes: Civil War to Civil Rights,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 27–February 24, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil, verso, bottom edge: 'Bloody Sunday' Attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge 2/2 Michael Mergen, 2015
Signed in pencil, verso, bottom right edge: Michael Mergen, 2015

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