Death and Taxes
Object Details
- Designer
- Micki McGee
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Ad for public art event with images of a tank, rockets, airplane, soldier, a coffin, arrows leading to a family, dollars with arrow to figures at a table, (Uncle Sam's hand offering dollars to family). New York protesting using taxes for war For Political Art Documentation/Distribution and Gallery 345, NYC. Text upper margin: DEATH AND TAXES APRIL 1-18. A public art event sponsored by P.A.D. (Political Art Documentation/Distribution) in Manhattan and Brooklyn / Including Posters, performances, films, graffiti and outdoor environments to protest the use of taxes for war and the economic cutbacks to the cities. [Other text includes locations in New York: 13 sites and 5 special event dates and locations]
- Credit Line
- Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs
- ca. 1980
- Accession Number
- 1993-53-87
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 28 x 43.3 cm (11 in. x 17 1/16 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1993-53-87
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e18edf09-5cb2-46b3-a8f3-0206c87275c8
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