{"id":1302,"date":"2021-11-01T08:49:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T00:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2021-10-27T10:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T02:13:52","slug":"national-gallery-of-art-acquires-iconic-faith-ringgold-flag-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/national-gallery-of-art-acquires-iconic-faith-ringgold-flag-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"National Gallery of Art Acquires Iconic Faith Ringgold Flag Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of a\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_faith-ringgold\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"faith-ringgold\">Faith Ringgold<\/a>\u00a0retrospective due to open at the New Museum in February, the\u00a0National Gallery of Art\u00a0in Washington, D.C. has acquired a painting from the artist\u2019s famed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\">American People Series<\/a>.\u201d Titled\u00a0<em>The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding<\/em>\u00a0(1967), the painting was gifted to the museum by the Glenstone Foundation, which was formed by\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0Top 200 Collectors Emily and Mitchell Rales. (Mitchell is the president of the National Gallery\u2019s board.) It is the first painting by Ringgold to enter the museum\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em>The Flag is Bleeding<\/em>, a white woman is shown interlocking arms with two men, one of them white, the other Black. All of their forms are partially obscured by an American flag whose stripes ooze blood. The source of some of that blood appears to be the Black man\u2019s chest, which has on it a wound that he covers with his hand, in a position that recalls the one taken while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. In the hand not held to the wound, the man holds a knife.<\/p>\n<p>National Gallery curator Harry Cooper said in an interview that staff at the museum initially thought that Ringgold\u2019s work may prove too expensive to acquire. But with director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">Kaywin Feldman<\/a>\u2019s encouragement, \u201cWe aimed high in really going after artists who were underrepresented in the collection,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When they reached out to Ringgold\u2019s dealer they were presented with a selection of works that Ringgold had kept in her personal collection for years. Among them was\u00a0<em>The Flag is Bleeding<\/em>. \u201cWe at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">National Gallery<\/a> are trying more and more to represent the paintings that have something important to say about the nation,\u201d Cooper said.<\/p>\n<p>Ringgold has previously made use of the American flag in works the deal head-on with racism in the U.S. \u201cThe flag is the only truly subversive and revolutionary abstraction one can paint,\u201d she once said. Similar works to\u00a0<em>The Flag is Bleeding<\/em>\u00a0appeared in a recent Ringgold survey held by the Raleses\u2019 Glenstone museum in collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries in London. The painting is due to appear in Ringgold\u2019s New Museum show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of a\u00a0Faith Ringgold\u00a0retrospective due to open at the New Museum in February, the\u00a0National Gallery of Art\u00a0in Washington, D.C. has acquired a painting from the artist\u2019s famed \u201cAmerican People Series.\u201d Titled\u00a0The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding\u00a0(1967), the painting was gifted to the museum by the Glenstone Foundation, which was formed by\u00a0ARTnews\u00a0Top 200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artist","category-auction","category-events","category-gallery","category-latest-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - 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