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Faith Ringgold

Under the Blood Red Sky, 2007

Description

Maker

  • Faith Ringgold, b. 1930, American
  • Printer Robert Franklin

Title

Under the Blood Red Sky

Year

2007

Medium

Color offset lithograph

Dimensions

Image/sheet: 75.2 x 55.9 cm (29 5/8 x 22 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in graphite, recto LL: 78/90; LC: Under a Blood Red Sky #9; LR: Faith Ringgold 2007. Embossed with Brandywine blindstamp, recto LR.

Identification

Edition

78/90

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Object Number

2014.66.31

Projects & Publications

Publications

Manual / Issue 14

Shadows
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Defying the Shadow

December 1, 2020 - December 18, 2021

Drawing Conclusions

January 22 - September 25, 2016

This scene, of a road leading to a small white house, is bordered by text that narrates the journey of two runaway slaves migrating North via the Underground Railroad. The print is one of many versions of the scene, which artist Faith Ringgold has sometimes titled Coming to Jones Road under a Blood Red Sky. The phrase “coming to Jones Road” alludes to Ringgold’s difficult move in 1992 from Harlem to Englewood, New Jersey, where, she later recounted, the neighbors “saw my presence on Jones Road as a threat to the ‘quality’ of their lives.”

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