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Faith Ringgold

Under the Blood Red Sky

Description

Maker

Faith Ringgold (American, 1930-2024
b. in Harlem, New York, NY)

Title

Under the Blood Red Sky

Year

2007

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

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

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Object Number

2014.66.31

Type

Projects & Publications

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 14: Shadows

The RISD Museum’s fourteenth issue of Manual shines a light on the shadow, centering the black body as a site of possibility, liberatory self-awareness, radical non-conformity, and joyful defiance. This issue serves as a companion to the exhibition Defying the Shadow.

Manual 14: Shadows opens with an excerpt on the shadow from W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, followed by an introduction by Dr. Anita N. Bateman, who elucidates: “Operating in the shadow comes with a legacy of resistance, both in spiritual and ideological forms.”

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Defying the Shadow
Dec 01, 2020 – Dec 18, 2021
Drawing Conclusions
Jan 22, 2016 – Sep 25, 2016

Label copy

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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Tombstone

Faith Ringgold (American, 1930-2024
b. in Harlem, New York, NY)
Robert Franklin (1930–2012
b. in Long Island, New York), printer
Under the Blood Red Sky, 2007
Color offset lithograph
Image/sheet: 75.2 x 55.9 cm (29 5/8 x 22 inches)
Gift of the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014.66.31

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