Screenprint for President Obama's 2012 campaign designed by Gail Anderson: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This is a silkscreen print featuring large text in different fonts against a white background. At the top margin is the word “WE” in large block letters in yellow, white, and navy blue. The world takes up the top third of poster. There are three red stars above the word in the upper right corner. The bottom two-thirds of the print consists of the Obama campaign “O” logo on the left-hand side. The top half of the “O” is bright blue. The bottom half of the letter is made up of red stripes against a yellow background that is part of a yellow stripe across the bottom half of the print. Next to the letter “O” is a large exclamation point in bright red that overlaps the letter “O” slightly. It has a big round red circle for the dot and the red shaft is bulbous at the top and narrow at the bottom. The print is signed by the two artists on the bottom left corner.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2012
• Created by: Gail Anderson, American, born 1962
• Created by: Joe Newton, American
• Subject of: President Barack Obama, American, born 1961
• Type: screen prints
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm)
• Place depicted: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Design
• Topic: Graphic design
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
• Object number: 2020.11.21
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gail Anderson
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © 2012 Obama for America Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.