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JOHN BIGGERS (1924 - 2001) The Four Sisters.
Linoleum cut on cream wove paper, 2000. 229x305 mm; 9x12 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated, numbered 60/75 and inscribed "2nd Ed." in pencil, lower margin.
An earlier edition of this print was printed in 1964, entitled Birmingham...Children of the Morning. Following the September 15, 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, John Biggers reflected on the lives lost of the four young girls who were killed while attending Sunday School. According to Olive Jensen Thiesen, Biggers also made three drawings in a single weekend, Give Me Two Wings, Man of Fire and Mother and Children, in direct response to these events in the Civil Rights struggle. Thiesen p. 68.
