Untitled (Think / Flag) (1967)
An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940 – 2017
October 16, 2017

The Whitney Museum of American Art is currently presenting ‘An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940 – 2017’, and highlighted in the show is William N. Copley’s iconic contribution to the 1967 portfolio Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Viet Nam.

Untitled (Think / Flag) is a monochromatic, silkscreened version of Copley’s American flag motif, which the artist started developing in 1961 and would employ in later works, including drawings, prints and editioned textiles. For more information on this timely survey, please visit the museum exhibition’s page here.