Kent State Shootings: Digital Archive

Dunfee, Elizabeth Ann (Gibbs). "Mourning After"

Kent State Shootings: Digital Archive

Dunfee, Elizabeth Ann (Gibbs). "Mourning After"

Description Mixed-media painting on canvas, 35.5 inches by 38 inches.  Restored in 2020, by Andrea Chevalier, Senior Paintings Conservator of the Intermuseum Conservation Association. 

Elizabeth Ann (Gibbs) Dunfee was a Kent State University art student at the time of the shootings. The morning after May 4, 1970, she began to paint this work using oils and acrylics, completing it in the months to follow.
Date 1970
Extent 1 painting
Institution Kent State University
Repository Special Collections and Archives
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Format of Original archive (mixed materials)
Author/Photographer Dunfee, Elizabeth Ann (Gibbs)
Subcollection May 4 Art collection
Subject(s) Artwork
Reactions, Responses. Artistic
Reactions, Responses. Students
May 4 Provenance May 4 Collection