7. Seth Siegelaub and Robert Projansky, The Artist’s Reserved Rights
Transfer and Sale Agreement Contract, 1969.
8. Jan Van Ray, Art Worker’s Coalition at MoMA in front of Picasso’s
Guernica, protesting the Vietnam War, January 8, 1970.
9. Ronald L. Haeberle, Photos of the My Lai
Massacre, published in the Plain Dealer,
1968.
Art Workers’ Coalition with photograph by
Ronald Haeberle, paper supplied by Peter
Brandt, Q. And babies? A. And babies. 1970.
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FIGURE 7 Art Workers’ Coalition, “One Blood Dollar,” ca. 1970. Fake photocopied bill, offset on
paper, 6 × 21⁄2 in. Image courtesy of the Lucy R. Lippard Papers, ca. 1940–2006, Archives of
American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
prison.” A poster for a demonstration was more succinct and pointed to the gover-
nor’s power in both state policy and the museum: “At Attica and at the Modern, Rock-
efeller calls the shots” (Plate 3). The black and white text is placed on a dark ground
splattered with bloody red bullet wounds. With its almost abstract-expressionist use
of paint, this poster mimics a gestural brush stroke to drive its point home. It seems
to ask: What better visual language than repurposed action painting is there to ad-
dress, and attack, MoMA, the very temple of such painting’s sanctification?
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Art Workers’ Coalition, “One Blood
Dollar,” ca. 1970. Fake photocopied bill,
offset on paper, 6 × 21⁄2 in.
Art Workers’ Coalition with photograph by
Ronald Haeberle, paper supplied by Peter
Brandt, Q. And babies? A. And babies. 1970.
12. New York Art Strike taking over the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art,
June 18, 1970. Photo Jan van Raay.
13. Jan Van Ray, Faith Ringgold
(right) and Michelle Wallace
(middle) at Art Worker’s
Coalition Protest at the
Whitney Museum, 1970.
14. Critic Lucy Lippard at 1970
Whitney Museum protest
Artforum ad for the “50%” protest aimed at 1970 Whitney Annual
Faith Ringgold at 1970
People’s Flag Show at
Judson Memorial Church
Artforum ad for the “50%” protest aimed at 1970
Whitney Annual
Faith Ringgold at
1970 People’s
Flag Show at
Judson Memorial
Church.
Critic Lucy Lippard at
1970 Whitney Museum
protest
At the 1969 Whitney Annual, 8 of 151 artists included were women.
15. Foreword to The Whitney’s American Contemporary Sculpture Catalog (1960,
1964, and 1970). 1970 catalog reflects the addition of two black women
sculptors (Betye Saar and Barbara Chase-Riboud) after protests by the AWC.
1960 1964 1970