Louie Palu
The statue of a Confederate general lies with a noose around his neck after being pulled down on Juneteenth which is celebrated as Emancipation Day

The statue of a Confederate general lies with a noose around his neck after being pulled down on Juneteenth which is celebrated as Emancipation Day
The statue of a Confederate general lies with a noose around his neck after being pulled down on Juneteenth which is celebrated as Emancipation Day
The statue of a Confederate general lies with a noose around his neck after being pulled down on Juneteenth which is celebrated as Emancipation Day
ArtistCanadian, born 1968
CultureCanadian
Titles
  • The statue of a Confederate general lies with a noose around his neck after being pulled down on Juneteenth which is celebrated as Emancipation Day
  • from the series Political Year Zero
Date2020, printed 2022
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 × 14 in. (35.5 × 35.5 cm)
 Sheet: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Photography Subcommittee 2022
Object number2022.474
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Following the murder of George Floyd and numerous acts of racial violence, photojournalist Louie Palu spent much of the summer of 2020 photographing Black Lives Matter protestors. Palu’s picture of the felled statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, marked with spray paint and a noose around his neck in Judicial Square, Washington, D.C., depicts one of numerous acts of tearing down Confederate monuments carried out on June 19, 2020, in recognition of Juneteenth and to protest racism.



ProvenanceThe artist; [Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Verso: inscribed in pencil, along bottom edge: 2/25 The statue of a Confederate general lies with a noose around his neck after being / pulled down June teenth which is celebrated as emancipation day, 2020 Washington DC Louie Palu [cursive] / printed 2022
Verso: signed in pencil, at bottom right corner: Louie Palu [cursive]

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