Doers

Artist Archie Scott Gobber (American, born 1965)

Publisher The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

Date2002

MediumLithograph on Somerset soft white paper

DimensionsSheet: 30 × 38 1/4 inches (76.2 × 97.16 cm)
Image: 26 × 35 1/4 inches (66.04 × 89.54 cm)

Credit LineGift of C. Richard and Evelyn Belger

Object number2023.40.14

SignedSignature below the image.

Edition/State/ProofLLW IMP

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

Contemporary Art

Terms

DescriptionOuter red rectangular frame. Inner frame in a green and white floral pattern. Center stripe of green and white floral pattern. Two hexagonal frames superimposed on the inner frame. Their top and bottom edges are part of the red frame; their outer pointed edges touch the red frame; their inner pointed edges meet on top of the green stripe. Printed in capital letters in the left hexagon: IRAQ (yellow), TALIBAN (dark green), OSAMA BIN LADEN (red), TERRORISM (dark blue), EVILDOERS (dark yellow). Printed in capital letters in the right hexagon: ENRON (bright blue), WORLDCOM (red), ARTHUR ANDERSEN (light brown), ACCOUNTING (orange), WRONGDOERS (dark brown).
Gallery Label

Gallery Label

Archie Scott Gobber based Doers on a painting he made in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States. Inside coffin-like shapes, Gobber says he “listed ‘evildoers’ and ‘wrongdoers,’ terms used by President George W. Bush comparing terrorism and white-collar crime. They both had significant effects on America at a kitchen-table level, which I reference through the tablecloth motif.”

“I am not a printmaker, so learning from Mike [Sims] was an education,” Gobber recalls. “I watched as Mike and his assistant did the printing like two people performing a tightly choreographed dance. It was amazing.”

Provenance

C. Richard Belger and Evelyn Craft Belger, Kansas City, MO;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.

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