Artist Statement
“The first-ever collaboration between Shepard and the estate of legendary photographer Jim Marshall, American Civics, debuts this month! Shepard is interpreting Marshall's iconic photography from the 1960's, including images of Johnny Cash, Cesar Chavez, and Fannie Lee Chaney, with five new works, vividly depicting the humanity behind some of the country's enduring social issues: Voting Rights, Mass Incarceration, Worker's Rights, Gun Culture, and Two Americas. "I remove the guy next to Cesar Chavez. I made him sticking his head up a little higher, so he's a little bit more in the negative spa
About This Print
Workers' Rights is a 2016 screen print from Shepard Fairey's American Civics series, his first collaboration with the estate of photographer Jim Marshall. The image centers on Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers' march, with Fairey hand-collaging additional Marshall photographs of the march and reworking the composition through stencils, spray paint, and brushwork. Published by San Francisco Art Exchange in a first edition of 100, the print measures 40 x 30 inches. As one of five works depicting enduring American social issues, it foregrounds labor organizing and worker dignity through Fairey's layered, mixed-technique graphic interpretation.
Market Context
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