WILLIAM WEEGE (1935-2020) [PROTEST POSTERS]. Group of 4. 1967.
Each 25x19 inches, 59x48 1/4 cm. Happening Press, San Francisco.
Condition varies, each approximately A / A-: minor abrasions at edges. Paper.
From a series of peace and protest posters by Weege printed at Happening Press in the late 1960s, these images originally appeared in his portfolio Peace is Patriotic. Weege was a printmaker and artist. He was an MFA student at the University of Wisconsin Madison during the anti-Vietnam war protests that rocked the campus in 1967 - a protest movement that helped define his politcial work. He represented the United States at the 1970 Venice Biennale. Group includes: In Every Government there is a Trace of Human Weakness; Napalm; All the Way with LBJ; and Impeach Johnson.
Artist or Maker
William Weege