From the Archive

Artists’ protest poster and manifesto, "Stop: We Dissent," 1965. Designed by Hardy Hanson. Courtesy of the artist. The Getty Research Institute, Charles Brittin papers, 2005.M.11.30
On View at the Getty Center: Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics 1950-1980
During the Vietnam War many artists in Los Angeles became mobilized by the antiwar movement. In 1965 the Artists’ Protest Committee staged some of the earliest artist-organized demonstrations, protesting in galleries, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and even in front of the RAND Corporation, a conservative think-tank. This poster, used in the Protest Committee’s campaigns, features the image of a ladder by Craig Kauffman and a list of signers that reflected the support of different artistic communities in Los Angeles.