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Susan Pear Meisel, (American, b. 1947), Washington, DC, The Capitol, 1979, screenprint, 30” x 22” (image: 24” x 18”), gift of the artist.
Susan Pear Meisel, (American, b. 1947), Washington DC; The White House, 1979, screenprint, 22” x 30” (image: 18” x 24”), gift of the artist.Interestingly, these celebratory scenes were created just a few years after the Watergate scandal. They show Washington D.C. in its best light, despite the sometimes reprehensible activities occurring within the buildings portrayed. Those outside celebrate based on the optimistic, if not naïve, belief that the unseen internal happenings are for the greater good.
This notable alteration to the flag by William Nelson Copley urges the American people to learn their history, to recognize wrongs, to simply think.
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