US Marshal
Artist
May Stevens
(American, 1924 - 2019)
Datecirca 1970
Mediumscreenprint
DimensionsImage: 36 3/4 × 18 1/2 in. (93.3 × 47 cm)
Support: 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm)
Mat: 36 × 28 in. (91.4 × 71.1 cm)
Support: 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm)
Mat: 36 × 28 in. (91.4 × 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsGraphic
Credit LineGift of RYAN LEE Gallery in honor of Stevens' friendship with Harmony Hammond and gift of the May Stevens and Rudolf Baranik Foundation, 2020
Object number2020.28.2
DescriptionA portrait of a shirtless bald man wearing a cowboy hat, a tin star on his chest and sits with a bull dog on his lap in front of a red background.eMuseum Notes
US Marshal, is a silk screen that features the big daddy” imagery that Stevens used in her work from 1967 – 1976. The shirtless bald man with a bull dog on his lap comes from a photo of the artist’s father and was use in an earlier painting “Family.” This figure here has a cowboy hat and tin star on his chest to indicate that he is a Marshal. Often hats were used in these works to indicate the profession or affiliation of the big daddy figure. Big Daddy was a symbol of the questioning of the power of white male authority.
On View
Not on view
Betty Hahn
1977 (scanned and printed 2012)
