Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Dr. Martin Luther King and Reverend Ralph Abernathy are Escorted from the Court House to the Jail House

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)

Artist/Vendor Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)

CultureAmerican

Date1962

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image (Each): 4 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (10.8 × 15.9 cm)
Overall: 10 15/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.8 × 35.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 1/16 × 20 in. (40.8 × 50.8 cm)

InscribedDate, print number, and a credit to Chuck Kelton (who made the print) appears on the verso of the print.

Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank

Object number2000.14.6

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. Two images, side by side, of Dr. Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy walking from a building.

Label TextDanny Lyon American, b. 1942 Dr. Martin Luther King and Reverend Ralph Abernathy are Escorted from the Court House to the Jail House, 1962 Gelatin silver print (photograph) Printed by Chuck Kelton (b. 1952) Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 2000.14.6 ProvenanceThe artist; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 2000. Exhibition History"History of Photography," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va, Fall, 2001. "Photographic Histories," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, May 10 - August 17, 2014.Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Lyndhurst Series on the South_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 35.