Matthew N. Shain
Baltimore, (Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson, erected 1948)

Baltimore, (Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson, erected 1948)

© Matthew N. Shain

Baltimore, (Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson, erected 1948)
Baltimore, (Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson, erected 1948)
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Baltimore, (Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson, erected 1948)
  • from the series Post-Monuments
Date2017
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 24 15/16 × 19 15/16 in. (63.4 × 50.7 cm)
Frame: 29 15/16 × 24 15/16 × 1 1/4 in. (76 × 63.3 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Nena Marsh
Object number2018.636
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Matthew Shain created the series Post-Monuments following national discussions and protests surrounding the legacy of the Civil War and public monuments commemorating the Confederacy—many of which were erected in the 20th-century as a means to uphold racist ideologies of Confederate remembrance. As these monuments were removed from public spaces, Shain photographed the empty plinths and platforms, drawing attention to and encouraging discourse about the voids left in public space and now open to new possibilities of memorialization and community usage.



ProvenanceThe artist, New Orleans; purchased by MFAH, 2018.

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