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

Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC photographer is arrested

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)

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

CultureAmerican

Date1964

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 × 13 1/4 in. (22.9 × 33.7 cm)
Overall, Paper: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in. (27.6 × 35.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 20 1/16 in. (40.6 × 51 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 number2000.14.27

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. The focus is an African American man wearing white pants in the center of two groups of people, who are pulling him in a similar way one would be drawn and quartered. On one side, men armed with guns, helmuts, and gas masks pull on an African American man's left leg, left arm and shirt. In the foreground, a group of African Americans hold his right ankle. On the left, a man in a short sleeve khaki uniform walks away from the scene.

Label TextDanny Lyon American (b. 1942) Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC Photographer is Arrested, Cambridge, Maryland, 1964 Gelatin-silver print Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 2000.14.27 Danny Lyon grew up in a middle-class section of New York City and began to make photographs at the age of 17. He studied history at the University of Chicago and in 1962 joined the Civil Rights Movement, becoming staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Edited By: DS Edited Date: 2006 Approved By: DS Approval Date: 01/31/2007ProvenanceThe artist; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 2000. Exhibition History"Civil Rights Photography," Newseum, Arlington, Virginia, January 8 - April 30, 2001. "Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 11, 2020 - January 3, 2021.Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Lyndhurst Series on the South_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 138-139.