A money-shaped grim reaper labeled "Democracy at Work" strikes suffering people labeled homelessness, unemployment, racism, and other social ills.

Prints

Democracy at Work

1989

Medium
Screeprint
Dimensions
Sheet: 23 × 18 7/8 in. (58.4 × 47.9 cm) Image: 23 × 18 7/8 in. (58.4 × 47.9 cm)
Accession number
2016.257.11
Acquired
2016
Credit line
Gift of Paul Castrucci
Reproduction credit
© The Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
Publication
Printed by Andrew Castrucci; printed by Lower East Side Printshop, Inc. New York
Department
collection

About this work

David Wojnarowicz, Democracy at Work, 1989. Screeprint, sheet: 23 × 18 7/8 in. (58.4 × 47.9 cm) Image: 23 × 18 7/8 in. (58.4 × 47.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Paul Castrucci 2016.257.11. © The Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York

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