Object Details
- Artist
- David Levinthal, born San Francisco, CA 1949
- Exhibition Label
- The legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral took place on October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona. A group of lawmen, including the Earp brothers--Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan--and Doc Holliday, faced off against an outlaw gang who called themselves the Cowboys. Even though the event lasted a mere thirty seconds and was a rare occurrence in the West, it continues to resonate in popular imagination, inspiring countless cinematic treatments and daily reenactments in Tombstone. Levinthal's own restaging calls attention to the mythic status of the historic gunfight, which came to epitomize the "wildness" of the Old West.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Donald Standford Rosenfeld, Jr.
- Copyright
- © 2014, David Levinthal
- 2014
- Object number
- 2017.41.28
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography
- Medium
- inkjet print
- Dimensions
- 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure group\male
- Western
- State of being\illness\wound
- Occupation\service\policeman
- State of being\evil\violence
- Architecture Exterior\farm\stable
- Object\weapon\gun
- Occupation\crime\criminal
- Landscape\Arizona\Tombstone
- Record ID
- saam_2017.41.28
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7ee5fa047-140f-40e5-b7ee-146e0f7aca24
