We were grateful to attend the preview of @thejewishmuseum's NEW YORK: 1962-1964, which opens to the public on July 22nd and will be up through the end of the year. The show "explores a pivotal three-year period in the history of art and culture in New York City, examining how artists living and working in New York responded to their rapidly changing world, through more than 150 works of art — all made or seen in New York between 1962-1964" (The Jewish Museum). The Civil Rights Movement — and in particular the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 — is central to this show. Our first slide is the placard We Demand an End to Police Brutality Now! which was carried at the March in the summer of 1963. It’s on loan from National Museum of African American History and Culture. Our second slide is Reginald Gammon’s Freedom Now! (1963) which is on loan from the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center. Another perspective on the March on Washington, painted in acrylic on board. In 1963, Gammon was invited to join the Harlem-based artist collective called Spiral, along with Romare Bearden, Richard Mayhew, Hale Woodruff and Alvin Hollingsworth. Spiral hosted a group show in Manhattan in 1965 called Black and White in which all the works were in shades of black and white where this painting was displayed. In 1969, Gammon became one of the founders of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), who organized to protest against the Met after their show Harlem on My Mind left out the contributions of African-American artists. Our final slide is Faith Ringgold's American People #4, The Civil Rights Triangle (1963) which is on loan from the Glenstone Museum. This painting "shows Black and white figures arranged in a triangle with a white person at the top. In addition to forming an image of interracial cooperation, the figures and their placement suggest that the Civil Rights Movement depended upon approval from white Americans" (The Jewish Museum). Let's also note that Ringgold only painted men here, which could not have been an accident. #thejewishmuseum #civilrightsmovement #reginaldgammon #faithringgold