James Byrd
Object Details
- Artist
- Charles Smith
- Date
- 2001
- Medium
- Concrete Carpet hair Leather shoes Acrylic paints Weathering steel support
- Dimensions
- 55 1/2 x 49 x 32 in. (141 x 124.5 x 81.3 cm)
- Cite As
- The Kohler Foundation Collection, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, gift of the Kohler Foundation.
- Caption
- A statement from the artist: "This represents one of the most tragic crimes of abuse of one human being against another. In Jasper, Texas, two white men chained a black man to the back of a pick up truck and dragged him until he was decapitated."
- Accession Number
- 2004.0011.0021
- Type
- sculpture
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- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Metadata Usage
- Not determined
- Record ID
- acm_2004.0011.0021
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