An-My Lê Fragment VI: General Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard Monuments, Homeland Security Storage, New Orleans, Louisiana, from Silent...
An-My Lê Fragment VI: General Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard Monuments, Homeland Security Storage, New Orleans, Louisiana, from Silent...

An-My Lê Fragment VI: General Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard Monuments, Homeland Security Storage, New Orleans, Louisiana, from Silent General, 2017

Pigment print
Image: 55 3/4 x 39 1/4 in. (141.6 x 99.7 cm)
Frame: 56 7/8 x 40 3/8 x 1 1/2 in. (144.5 x 102.6 x 3.8 cm)
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
(21911)

Both statues were made by the same sculptor, Alexander Doyle, a well-known artisan of the time. Here, they are stored in a Homeland Security plywood shed with a dirt floor. It took nearly two years of political infighting and legal action for the mayor of the city, Mitch Landrieu, and the City Council to enforce a bill calling for the removal of these monuments.

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