The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, (painting)
Object Details
- painter
- Shahn, Ben 1898-1969
- Subject
- Sacco, Nicola
- Vanzetti, Bartolomeo
- "Catalogue of the Collection," New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1975, pg. 28.
- "American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art," New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001, pg. 275.
- Summary
- Scene depicting Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti lying dead in their coffins outside the courthouse where they were tried and convicted for robbing and murdering a factory paymaster and his assistant in Braintree, Massachusetts. Standing over them are their attorneys, each holding a lily, and the judge who presided over the lengthy trial.
- 1931-1932
- Control number
- IAP 60010158
- Type
- Paintings
- Medium
- Tempera on canvas
- Owner/Location
- Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue New York New York 10021 Accession Number: 49.22
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- Topic
- History--United States--Sacco and Vanzetti
- Landscape--Massachusetts
- Architecture exterior--Civic--Courthouse
- Portrait male--Head
- State of Being--Death
- Figure group--Male
- Occupation--Law--Lawyer
- Occupation--Law--Judge
- Object--Flower--Lily
- Record ID
- siris_ari_379620
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
