Artworks

Nancy Spero
Bomb, Dove and Victims, 1967
Signed and dated recto
Gouache and ink on paper
24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.4 cm)
Framed: 27.9 x 39.6 x 1.5 inches (70.8 x 100.6 x 3.8 cm)

"Spero considered her 1966 decision to work solely on paper an act of defiance. 'Part of my resistance as an artist in the War Series was a decision not to work anymore on canvas. I shifted completely to work on paper. Big canvases carried the male look! The 'establishment'! No was paying attention. I was madder than hell about the war. I figured later on that probably since I had three small sons, I wouldn't want my sons going off to war, the raging Vietnam War I considered an abomination. So the War Series was like an exorcism.'" - from Nancy Spero: The Work by Christopher Lyon