- Titles Scott's Cumbrian Blue(s), New American Scenery, Pipelines & Peltier (Proper)
- Artist Paul Scott, British, born 1953
- Medium in-glaze screen print on salvaged porcelain with pearlware glaze
- Dimensions 1 1/8 × 11 in. Diam. (2.9 × 27.9 cm)
- Credit Line Museum purchase, 2020.1, image © Paul Scott
- Work Type plate
- Classification Containers
- Signature Signed by the artist on the reverse in underglaze blue, lower center: Paul Scott
- Marks The reverse with the factory backstamp of the plate maker Syracuse China within a circle: USA / Since 1871 / Syracuse CHINA / 37-D
- Inscription On the reverse all in underglaze blue the Great Seal of the United States with the words above "Cumbrian Blue(s)" and below "New American Scenery." Below this a paintbrush with then name "Scott" on its handle and below "(Image of Leonard Peltier after Kevin Mckiernan". Next to this in red underglaze the figure of a man. Below this the text, "Leonard Peltier, a Native American has been in jail for more than 43 years, unjustly convicted of the 1975 murders of FBI special agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota...." and "The injustices that contributed to Peltier's conviction are not subject to credible dispute. Federal agents made false statements to the press; submitted false affidavits to courts; coerced alleged witness statements; and deliberately withheld critical ballistics reports in order to gain an unfair advantage at trial." and "When the ballistics results were discovered after trial, the government's attorneys conceded - as they had to - that they had no credible evidence regarding who shot the FBI agents, and did not know whose weapon actually killed the agents." and "Due to the numerous issues at trial and the exhaustion of all of his legal avenues for appeal, Amnesty International supports ongoing calls for clemency for 74-year-old Leonard Peltier." Below this in a circle the title of the plate, "Pipelines & Peltier" with the image of two small figures. On the rim in red underglaze the circular stamp with a crown and "V&A" and an oval with "Cummington, MASS / Scott's CUMBIRAN BLUE(S) / USA" and a smaller circle with "REAL ART / A" and a circle with "FERRIN CONTEMPORARY” with a lion holding a ball and "CUMMINGTON & N. ADAMS / MA." On the front the name "Leonard Peltier" and in a sign below "BIG BEND STANDS WITH STANDING ROCK / NO DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE / TRANS-PECOS PIPELINE / ENERGY TRANSFER PARTNERS"
- Provenance Made by Paul Scott (English, born 1953), Cumbria, England, 2019; dealer Leslie Ferrin / Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, Massachusetts; purchased by the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2020
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