Bus Burning at Anniston

Art Bacon

2011

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Previously catalogued as "Nude Woman"
Musée du Louvre II, Thomas Struth, color coupler print
Painting depicting the floods of Hurricane Katrina in shades of green. On the left is a young man in blue shorts and a yellow t-shirt that reads, "Bayou Classic" pulling a light-blue, deflated raft with an older woman seated on it, behind her is a younger woman holding onto her shoulders. On the right is a large boat with an American flag on the side, within which are three armed National Guardsmen in camouflage with bullet-proof vests and helmets. At their feet is a red cooler filled with food and drinks, the word FEMA written on the exterior. One of the seated Guardsmen is drinking a coke and the other is eating a sub sandwich. The young man in yellow is giving the middle finger to the Guardsmen and the young woman spits at them. In the background are two figures in the water waving for help and a group of flooded houses, with a father and two children emerging from one of them. In the foreground is a dead body floating in the water, shown with his tongue out and wearing a red and green plaid shirt.
A black and white photograph of the upper portions of one of the two towers of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York city. The suspender and diagonal support cables creating a checkered and see through foreground. In the background, the tower and its two iconic Gothic Revival pointed or ogive arches are in lower part of the photograph with the sky is visible towards the top and through the arches. The diagonal cables converge to a point in the center of the photograph.