| Murder in Mississippi | |
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| Artist | Norman Rockwell |
| Year | 1965 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 134.5 cm × 106.5 cm (53 in × 42 in) |
| Location | Norman Rockwell Museum |
Murder in Mississippi, as named by the artist, is a 1965 painting by Norman Rockwell which was commissioned for an article titled "Southern Justice" in the American magazine Look. The painting depicts the 1964 murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, and was intended to illustrate an article written on the murders by civil rights attorney Charles Morgan Jr.[1] The painting is oil on canvas 53 × 42 inches (134.5 × 106.5 cm), and also has a pencil on board study of the same title,[2] both of which reside in the collections of the Norman Rockwell Museum.
- ^ Blake, Casey Nelson (2007). The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State 2007. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. p. 66. ISBN 9780812240290.
... explicitly political statements, as in the powerful civil rights illustrations commissioned for Look magazine (The Problem We All Live With, January 14, 1964, and Southern Justice, June 29, 1965, accompanying attorney Charles Morgan Jr.
- ^ Rockwell, Norman; Hennessey, Maureen Hart; Larson, Judy L; High Museum of Art (1999). Pictures for the American People. Harry N. Abrams. p. 196. ISBN 9780810963924.