Google Pays Homage to Historic-and Governmentally Hindered-Vermeer Survey at National Gallery of Art In the hand not held to the wound, the man holds a knife. The source of some of that blood appears to be the Black man’s 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. All of their forms are partially obscured by an American flag whose stripes ooze blood. In The Flag is Bleeding, a white woman is shown interlocking arms with two men, one of them white, the other Black. (Mitchell is the president of the National Gallery’s board.) It is the first painting by Ringgold to enter the museum’s collection. has acquired a painting from the artist’s famed “American People Series.” Titled The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding (1967), the painting was gifted to the museum by the Glenstone Foundation, which was formed by ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Emily and Mitchell Rales. Ahead of a Faith Ringgold retrospective due to open at the New Museum in February, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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