The Great Society: Military Life

 

Warrington Colescott

  1921 - 2018 (biography)

1966  

etching, photoetching and serigraphy 

17 13/16 x 18" image 

pencil, lower right 

3 of 50  

dated after signature; titled in lower center 

Chapin 108; Elvehjem 111 

textured, handmade cream wove 

i/ii (second state not in color) 

artist 

15972 

$1,500.00 

An excellent example of Colescott's unrelenting social criticism this etching addresses the inconsistancies of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" of mid 1960's during the Vietnam War era. This image was number 3 in the series of 6. The series was printed in color in state 1 and in black and white in state 2.