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Matthew Day Jackson
Born 1974, Panorama City, CA (US)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY (US)

Matthew Day Jackson Born 1974, Panorama City, CA (US)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY (US)

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Matthew Day Jackson, LIFE, August 31, 1959, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Matthew Day Jackson, LIFE, August 31, 1959, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Matthew Day Jackson, LIFE, August 31, 1959, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Matthew Day Jackson, LIFE, August 31, 1959, 2021
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Matthew Day Jackson

LIFE, August 31, 1959, 2021
Formica, needlepoint, epoxy, acrylic paint, urethane plastic, lead, wood, stainless steel frame
186.1 x 139.1 x 5.1 cm | 73 1/4 x 54 3/4 x 2 in

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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Matthew Day Jackson, Footprint, 2010
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Matthew Day Jackson's explores the continued influence of America's past on its current political and social climate through his series of LIFE Magazine covers. This cover shows Rip Van Winkel, from the short story published in 1819 by Washington Irving. Van Winkel falls asleep after drinking with mysterious Dutch colonists in the Catskill Mountains of New York, to awake 20 years later. When he arises, his beard has grown long and he finds that the world is changed; he has slept through the American Revolution.
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Matthew Day Jackson's explores the continued influence of America's past on its current political and social climate through his series of LIFE Magazine covers. This cover shows Rip Van Winkel, from the short story published in 1819 by Washington Irving. Van Winkel falls asleep after drinking with mysterious Dutch colonists in the Catskill Mountains of New York, to awake 20 years later. When he arises, his beard has grown long and he finds that the world is changed; he has slept through the American Revolution.
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