OHRA 1972

1972. Vietnam (lino)

Art: 1972
Lino block (image) size: 6 in. H x 7.5 W

Background:
I made this linocut print in November or December 1972. I had just begun my first quarter as a freshman, Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois. Then called Parkland Junior College, it was later Parkland Community College. I declared art as my major when I registered for my first classes.

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Late 1972, shortly before Xmas and New Year’s  I mounted a number of proofs on black construction paper, inserted each in a manila envelope and I mailed them to relatives and friends. It was my first social justice artwork. The Vietnam war was still raging on…

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In 2017 I located, on the internet, the photo I believe was the source image for the linocut print. I am trying to find out who took the photo.

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Also see: Vietnam Special # 1 [Other human rights art – 1970s’], a multi-image proof of this lino, printed early 1973. Collection: Faner Hall Museum collection, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Gift of Robert Royce, Bainbridge Island, Washington

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Also see: Vietnam Summer Concerto [Other human rights art – 1980’s], a large mixed media blockprint and drawing whose imagery includes 13 printed proofs of the Vietnam lino on a large drawing paper.

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Also see:
Vietnam Triality, a multi image proof I printed, in 2018, from the late 1972 cut lino block

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Also see SWD 1: The Birth and Death of the World