Museum of Walking Annex: Selections from the ASU Art Museum Collection

 

ASU Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center

51 E 10th St, Tempe, AZ 85281

Saturday, January 28–Saturday, May 20, 2017

Museum Hours: Tues-Sat 11AM-5PM, Thurs open until 8

Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, Untitled (After Pete Harris, Elizabeth Eckford: One of the Little Rock Nine, 4, September, 1957), 2006

Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, Untitled (After Pete Harris, Elizabeth Eckford: One of the Little Rock Nine, 4, September, 1957), 2006

Selections from the ASU Art Museum’s collection of historic and contemporary artworks which provide a broader social, cultural and political context for walking. Maurice Prendergast’s 1916 painting, Early Summer, captures well-to-do families walking and enjoying the public space. Reginald Marsh’s double sided drawing from 1944 shows two strong and bold women striding through the city streets, ignoring onlookers stares and catcalls. McCallum and Tarry’s recent multimedia work captures the tumultuous historic moment that a school was desegregated in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 when nine African American students walked into the school. 

 

Support from the Evelyn Smith Exhibition Fund.

 

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