Skip to main content
We Will Fight You Day or Night

Kobina Badowah and Fante (Akan)

We Will Fight You Day or Night

Fante, 1949

Scroll

We Will Fight You Day or Night

Fante, 1949

Physical Qualities Cotton, synthetic fiber, 36 5/8 x 53 1/8 x 13/16 in. (93 x 135 x 2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Ambassador Dawn M. Liberi, Washington, D.C.
Object Number 1998.375
Flag; white, black, red, blue, gray and yellow. Union Jack in upper left corner; two human figures, one with a whip in one hand and pointing at a red star on a large black field.
'In the Spotlight: Recent Accession,' "BMA Today," 1-22-1999.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.82, ill.
John Sartain
William Young Birch
1827
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe I and Gerhard Fleischer
English Garden with Willow and Urn (upper left); Ox Scratching against a Gnarled Oak (upper right); Gnarled Oak with Flute-Playing Shepherd Sitting on Branch (lower right); Young Shepherd with a Cow (lower left)
1789
Théodore Chassériau
"Have you pray'd to-night, Desdemona?" (Act V, Scene II) from "Othello"
1843
Honoré Daumier, Arnaud de Vresse, and others
You find spring too cold this year, next year you will perhaps find it too hot
1866
Honoré Daumier
A classical poet composing an eclogue about the quiet pastoral life... "and these wretched journalists will say that my style is vague. How on earth can you be clear with such collaborators?!"
1839
Maria Sweeny
Remember Now Thy Creator in Thy Days of Thy Youth . . .
1800
Unknown Artist, American
William Ledyard Vandervoort as a Young Man
1794
Hugh P. Botts and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
Saturday Night
1934
Honoré Daumier
No use, madame.... your vote will not prevent mine!
1865
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Si Amanece; nos Vamos (When Day Breaks We Will Be Off)
1798
Paul Gavarni
'Today, we will have a good time!'
1854