Barehanded War No. 4
- Artist
- John E. Rozelle, American, born 1944
- Date
- 1987
- Classification
- Mixed media
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 58 5/8 x 69 1/2 x 2 in. (148.9 x 176.5 x 5.1 cm)
- Credit Line
- Funds given by Eleanor J. Moore, Friends of African American Art, and the Alturas Foundation
- Rights
- © John E. Rozelle
- Object Number
- 20:2008
NOTES
In Barehanded War No. 4 artist John Rozelle references the haunting effects of apartheid and colonialism in South Africa. The image shows two black South African protestors dragging the broken body of a wounded comrade. Gold is sprinkled throughout the white-on-white image to symbolize an earlier policy of political and economic injustice and racial segregation driven by money and power.