Klan Rally, Jackson, Mississippi (or Ku Klux Klan) - (1981)
Artist: Frank Stewart
Medium: Silver Gelatin Print
Location: Louisville, KYProvenance: Acquired from Frank Stewart in 2011. Loaned to Frank Stewart’s Nexus, a nationally touring exhibition presented by The Phillips Collection (2023–2024).Exhibition History:
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
(Jun – Sept 2023)
The Baker Museum, Naples, FL
(Oct 2023 – Jan 2024)
Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
(Feb – May 2024)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA
(Jun – Sep 2024)
On a National Endowment for the Arts grant to photograph the South, I was going through Jackson and read in a local paper that there was to be a Klan rally the next week. So I went on to Memphis for a few days and came back to Jackson to photograph the rally.
Artist Commentary from the show “you oughta know” on PBS