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It Takes $400 Per Year from Every Man, Woman and Child in This Country to Give Dickie Enough Gas to Play War

Sumner Stone (American, born in 1946)
Printed at: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1970

Medium/Technique Poster, photoscreenprint on dark yellow paper
Dimensions Sheet: 51.1 x 35.5 cm (20 1/8 x 14 in.)
Credit Line Lee M. Friedman Fund
Accession Number2016.196
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrintsPosters

DescriptionProtest poster, printed at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the days following the May 4, 1970 shooting of four student demonstrators at Kent State University, Ohio
InscriptionsIn graphite, l.r.: 4/25
Provenance1970, Sumner Stone (b. 1946, East Greenwich, RI); 2016, sold by Sumner Stone to the MFA. (Accession date: May 25, 2016)