Right On!
1968
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View on museum website →Medium
screenprint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 50.8 × 30.8 cm (20 × 12 1/8 in.) sheet: 59.06 × 40.64 cm (23 1/4 × 16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Dennis Beall)
Accession Number
2015.19.3087
Art Historical Context
"Right On!" is a striking 1968 screenprint Rupert García, a pioneering Chicano artist known for his bold political posters emerging from the vibrant Bay Area scene. Created as a black ink image onove paper (50.8 × 30.8 cm), this work exemplifies the accessibility of screenprinting—a technique favored in late 1960s for its ability to produce bold, high-contrast graphics inexpensively for mass distribution. The medium's stencil-based process allowed artists like García to amplify messages with sharp lines and powerful simplicity, making it ideal for posters that could rally communities. Dated t...