id:			167461
accession number:	2009.273
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.273
updated:		2023-03-22 03:04:35.536000

Chinese Bomb and Victims, from the "War" Series, 1967. Nancy Spero (American, 1926–2009). Gouache and ink on paper; sheet: 86.4 x 69.2 cm (34 x 27 1/4 in.); framed: 96.5 x 78.7 cm (38 x 31 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2009.273 ©  The Nancy Spero and Leon Golub Foundation for the Arts/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

title:				Chinese Bomb and Victims, from the "War" Series
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creation date:			1967
creation date earliest:		1967
creation date latest:		1967
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			©  The Nancy Spero and Leon Golub Foundation for the Arts/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	gouache and ink on paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 20th Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Nancy Spero (American, 1926–2009)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 86.4 x 69.2 cm (34 x 27 1/4 in.); Framed: 96.5 x 78.7 cm (38 x 31 in.)
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	inscription:	Lower left in black ink: Spero 67
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	the artist to Galerie LeLong, NY
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A first-generation feminist artist, Spero was born in Cleveland and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1959, she and her husband, the artist Leon Golub, moved to Paris, then relocated to New York City in 1964 where they were confronted with the escalating American action in Vietnam. She ended the existential mood of her early work and started working rapidly on paper, what she described as "angry works, manifestos against [the] war." The War series was Spero’s first complete body of work on paper and is now considered her first major achievement as an artist. Painted with watercolor, gouache, and ink on paper, they are passionate, messy works that eschew order and control. As she described it, the War series "became exorcisms to keep the war away."
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