OHRA 1973
1973. Vietnam Special # 1
Art: Early 1973
Multiple adjacent printing of the late 1972 made Vietnam linoblock. The mat is artified with a rectilinear outline linear frame drawn in black, gold ink surrounding the multiple blockprint imagery. The lino was printed on blockprint rice paper. The mat has an MLK memorial walk armband; political buttons, anti-Vietnam war hand-outs. Dated in pencil, bottom right: Jan. 1973.
The framed size is slightly larger than 12 1/4 inches H x 40 1/4 W.
Exhibits: Faner Hall Museum, SIU-Carbondale, 2017. Exhibition: Artists Respond to War.
Collection of the Faner Hall Art Museum, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Gift of Robert Royce of Bainbridge Island, Washington. A friend of the artist, Royce is a US Merchant Marine vet whose 6 to 7 years of service overlapped the Second World War years, 1941-45. Thank you for your service, Robert Royce!
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Collaged on the bottom of the mat: A paper armband given to Segan when he joined a memorial walk in Manhattan, N.Y., the day after the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 1968.
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Attached to the paper armband, which states "Our King Will Never Die," are 2 political buttons against the Vietnam war. Another button addresses the 1973 military overthrow of the government of Salvador Allende, the junta led by General Pinochet and troops, 1973 / Also attached: A political button in memory of Rev. Dr. King; and a Congress of Racial Equality (aka CORE) about the Freedom Rides in the Deep South, ca. early-to-mid 1960’s.
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A paper Student Mobilization Committee flyer card (opposing the Vietnam) war had adorned the cover of a notebook when Segan was in high school (1965-68) and decades later that card ended up on the mat of the artwork.
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The penned “Support Academic Freedom” (bottom left on the mat) and the green and white printed label: End the War in Vietnam – BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW were both on the cover of a high school years drawing – sketch book of Segan’s.
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Segan did the linocut print, Vietnam, during his first few weeks, late 1992, when he was a freshman with a declared major of art, at Parkland Jr. College, Champaign, Illinois. (Later called Parkland Comm. College, now called Parkland College). Segan completed his freshman year of art studies at Parkland, then transferred to Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, fall '74. He received a B.A., Art, 1977, School of Art. Major: Printmaking; Minor: Drawing.
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A 3 min. 43 sec video of the Vietnam (late 1972) lino
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A 6 min., 18 sec video of Vietnam Special # 1
