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Underdogs, Everday Heroes, Antiheroes — Collection Theme

Curated by UMMA Curators

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Objects in UMMA’s collection related to the theme of Underdogs, Everday Heroes, Antiheroes.

Untitled
1966
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
gelatin silver print on paper
Untitled, Columbia, SC
1984
Baldwin Lee
gelatin silver print on paper
Luther – 16 yrs. old. Right arm was cut off by a running saw in a box factory. Now attending school.
1908 - 1910
Lewis W. Hine
gelatin silver print on paper
Simon on the Subway, NYC
1998
Nan Goldin
cibachrome print on paper
Untitled, #2
1990-2000
David Rosen
gelatin silver print on paper
Young Mechanic
1967; printed 2010
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
Kentucky
1972; printed 1973
William Gedney
toned gelatin silver print on paper
Untitled (Child with a Doll Carriage), from “Welsh Miners”
1981
Bruce Davidson
gelatin silver print on paper
Child
1977-1980
Gerald Parker
gelatin silver print on paper
Untitled, Monroe, LA
1985
Baldwin Lee
gelatin silver print on paper
One Third of a Nation
1936
Arnold Eagle; David Robbins
gelatin silver print on paper
Street Musicians
1898 - 1899
Eugène Atget; Berenice Abbott
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
The Eight-Year Old Daughter of a Tobacco Farmer
1939; printed 1990
Dorothea Lange
toned gelatin silver print on paper
Figure of a Girl in Blue (portrait of Miss Minnie Clark)
circa 1892
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
oil on canvas
Untitled (Two Workers, with Hats, on Beach)
1960-1980
Manuel Carrillo
gelatin silver print on paper
People Waiting for a Bus (bus driver yawning)
1977-1980
Gerald Parker
gelatin silver print on paper
Northumbrian Miner at His Evening Meal
1937
Bill Brandt
gelatin silver print on paper
Lincoln, Maw and Shorty
1992
Shelby Lee Adams
gelatin silver print on paper
A Stag at Sharkey’s
1917
George Wesley Bellows
lithograph on paper
The Sand Team
1919
George Wesley Bellows
lithograph on paper
Sailor Watching Man Play Flute on Street, NYC
1962; printed 1973
Ken Heyman
vintage gelatin silver print on paper
Shoemaker
20th century
Manuel Carrillo
gelatin silver print on paper
Les Trimardeurs (The Vagabonds, or The Homeless)
1896
Camille Pissarro
lithograph on Van Gelder beige laid paper
Tired Marchers Sleep on the Streets—”We were tired, we were tired.”, Selma, Alabama
1963, printed 2000
Edward (Robbie) Roberson
inkjet print on paper
Untitled, Vicksburg, MS
1983
Baldwin Lee
gelatin silver print on paper
Boy and Chicken
20th century
Alma Davenport
gelatin silver print on paper
Harlequin
1955; printed 2006
Lucien Clergue
gelatin silver print on paper
Votes for Women
1912
John Sloan
crayon, ink, and graphite on white paper
Lunch Counter
1940
Isabel Bishop
etching on paper
Untitled
circa 1968
Garry Winogrand
gelatin silver print on paper
The Lord Provides, from the “American Scene, Series 1”
1934
Jacob Burck
lithograph on paper
Fish Day
1938
Minnie Murphy
wood engraving on paper
Gulf War, Iraq, from “Detroit Focus 2000”
1991
David Turnley
black and white photograph on paper
Artillery Battle (Artillerieschlacht)
1917
Otto Dix
charcoal and gouache on paper mounted on linen
The Hero (Der Held)
1933
George Grosz
lithograph on paper
A Murder
1912-1913
George Grosz
pen and ink with watercolor on wove paper
River Junkmen
1867-1933
George Luks
plumbago on tracing paper, mounted on heavier paper
The Bandit’s Cave
1920
John Sloan
etching on paper
Night Shadows
1921
Edward Hopper
etching on Van Gelder wove paper
Workman
1936
David Alfaro Siqueiros
lithograph on paper
Lackarbeiter
1930
August Sander
gelatin silver print on paper
El bache
circa 1952-1953
José Ortega
woodblock print on paper
Image from “A Class Act”, Detroit, Michigan, from “Detroit Focus 2000”
1989
Manny Crisostomo
color photograph on paper
Music on the Streets of Detroit, from “Detroit Focus 2000”
2000
Bruce Giffin
black and white photograph on paper
Billy Sunday
1923
George Wesley Bellows; Bolton Brown
lithograph on paper
Between Rounds
1916
George Wesley Bellows
lithograph on paper
New York City
1968; printed 1978
Garry Winogrand
gelatin silver print on paper
Dempsey and Firpo
1923-1924
George Wesley Bellows
lithograph on paper
Murder of Edith Cavell
1918
George Wesley Bellows
lithograph on paper
Every Night at Eight
1938
Donato Rico
wood engraving on paper
Looking at the Sunshine
circa 1930
John S. DeMartelly
Lithograph on cream-colored paper on paper

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