2010.54.8778

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America Rising
America Rising
c. 2001
8.00 in HIGH x 18.44 in WIDE
(20.32 cm HIGH x 46.83 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.8778

Printed artist's signature at bottom right: "America Rising / [Haiyean] Oct 2001 / New York City."





Multi-color poster shows a reproduction of an artwork based on historical photograph with three scenes that transition into one another. An image of soldiers raising the American flag at Iwo Jima during World War II appears at left. A seascape with a ship and black smoke appears in the background. Three firefighters raising the American flag at the World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001 attacks appears at center. The right side of the page shows an image of the Apollo moon landing in 1969. A lunar landscape with a space vehicle, two astronauts, and an American flag planted in the ground are visible. An image of the earth appears in the sky at upper right.
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