OHRA 1973

Tom Mooney - Political Prisoner

Art: 1973
Media: Linocut print
Size: block imAGE 11 7/8 INCHES H X 11 7/8 W

Background:

I attended Parkland Jr College (later Community College, now called Parkland College) from fall '72 thru spring '74, majoring in art. I made the Tom Mooney linocut print in '73.

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Tom Mooney, born 1882, Chicago, died 1942 (San Francisco, age 59) was an American labor leader and socialist imprisoned for 22 years in California. Among those seeking to have Mooney released from prison were President Woodrow Wilson, who established a commission that concluded there was little evidence of any crime having been committed by Mooney. He was eventually released from prison, 1939, after having been pardoned by Culbert Olson, the governor of California. Olson was a Democrat.

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Bibliography:
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, English dept. The Search, poster announcement - literary journal submission invitational. Reproduction of Tom Mooney linocut print.

Northwest Passage newsweekly, Seattle, 1981. Reproduction of The Prisoner accompanying article “Walla Walla Lockdown,” Oct 19 – Nov 16 issue.

The Jewish Transcript, Seattle, August 27, 1999. Reproduction of The Prisoner with article, Eitz Or prison project expands.

Also see: Other Human Rights art: The Prisoner (1980)

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The Tom Mooney linoleum block was inked and hand-printed on the larger size drawing paper of my winter spring 1980 mixed media drawing, etching and lino titled The Prisoner. [see OHRA 1980 – The Prisoner]