Crimson — Malcolm X Series II

Bright crimson strikes across the figure of Malcolm X, hand raised, against a cloudy silver-gray sky. Vivid and urgent, with color that seems to pulse off the paper.

The story

Malcolm X (1925–1965) was a minister and human rights activist and one of the most powerful speakers of the civil rights era. Photographs of him at the podium, hand lifted to make a point, are among the defining images of the 1960s. His life story, told in The Autobiography of Malcolm X (written with Alex Haley), is still read around the world today.

Details

• Hand-pulled acrylic print on deckle-edge paper
• 11.5 × 15 in (portrait)
• Signed by the artist
• One of a kind: each print in the series is pulled by hand, so no two are alike
• Ships unframed