Artworks

Nancy Spero
Search and Destroy, D.O.W. N.A.P.A.L.M, 1967
Signed and dated recto, lower right
Gouache and ink on paper
23.75 x 35.25 inches (60.3 x 89.5 cm)
Framed: 27.5 x 39.25 x 1.6 inches (70 x 99.7 x 4 cm)
(GL6113)

"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