War Shirt #1 (from Modern War series)
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.This sculpture is based on early war shirts and evokes the responsibility assumed by the men to protect their people. Bentley Spang assembles his contemporary shirts from family photographs. Implicit in the works is the responsibility he feels to his people. He explains: "The war shirts I create are really about love and all that accompanies it: courage, respect, honor, and community."
Artwork Details
- Title: War Shirt #1 (from Modern War series)
- Artist: Bently Spang (Native American, Northern Cheyenne, born Montana, 1960)
- Date: 1998
- Geography: United States, Montana
- Culture: Northern Cheyenne
- Medium: Mixed media
- Dimensions: 56 × 36 × 10 in. (142.2 × 91.4 × 25.4 cm)
- Classification: Miscellaneous
- Credit Line: Collection of Sandra P. Spang
- Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing