Please Remember The More Than 110,000 People Who Have Died From COVID-19
2020
Medium
Letterpress
Dimensions
Sheet: 20 × 15 in. (50.8 × 38.1 cm)
Classification
Posters
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Nappy-negroes in art, 2020
Accession Number
2021.149.4
Art Historical Context
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic's early devastation in 2020, Amos Kennedy created *Please Remember The More Than110,000 People Who Died From COVID-19 a poignant letterpress poster that serves as a stark memorial to the mounting death toll in the United States. Kennedy, a renowned American printer and activist based in Detroit, is celebrated for his bold, charged broadsides that champion social justice, drawing from African American traditions and folk art. This work captures the raw grief and urgency of a global crisis, urging viewers to pause and honor the lives lost amid widespread unc...