I bought this from the renowned art gallery The Metropolitan in New York. It's currently retailing at $125 (£92). It's an iconic piece of artwork that Ringgold to address gender and racial issues in America and Europe. Ringgold painted the words of the First Amendment, which protects the freedoms of speech, religious practice, peaceful assembly, and lawful redress of grievances, on the red stripes of the American flag. Over the stars and white stripes, she names individuals and groups who were perpetrators or victims of serious breaches of these freedoms, laying bare that across U.S. history, the country’s ideals put forth in the Bill of Rights and symbolized by the flag have not always been upheld by its government or its people. Very apt in our current political landscape!
Size 40" x 26 3/4”