Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- White flag with metal pole and writing in marker. neon pink tag attached to metal pole (92- 74)
- Obverse Text: ETHEL MAE WASHINGTON
- As COVID-19 deaths spiked in 2020, Suzanne Firstenberg’s public art installation "In America: How could this happen…" memorialized the number of people in the United States who lost their lives to the Corona virus pandemic as of November of 2020. The work (taking up 4 acres of the Washington, DC Armory grounds) represented the magnitude of the loss and also humanized the individual experience. At the time, more than 250,000 people were represented through individual white flags, that together provided a visualization of the pandemic sweeping across the country.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 2020
- ID Number
- 2021.0014.20
- accession number
- 2021.0014
- catalog number
- 2021.0014.20
- Object Name
- flag
- commemorative flag
- Physical Description
- plastic; tyvek; metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 38 cm x 12.5 cm; 14 31/32 in x 4 29/32 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: General History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_2001497
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng4bdd3a399-9a45-0597-e053-15f76fa0cbca
