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Museum of Modern Art Acquires Ken Gonzales-Day’s The Wonder Gaze

Portrait of Ken Gonzales-Day, Fletcher Jones Chair in Art and professor of art at 61传媒

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York The Wonder Gaze (St. James Park) by Ken Gonzales-Day, Fletcher Jones Chair in Art and professor of art, for its permanent collection. The work depicts the lynching of Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes in St. James Park in San Jose, California, in 1933, and is part of Gonzales-Day’s ongoing Erased Lynchings聽series,聽which began with a focus on the history of lynching in California.

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