Richard Mock
United States, born 1944 All American Family, 1995
Linoleum cut
Museum purchase: Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund, 1998.0007
Richard Mock has described himself as an editorial printmaker, an artist who offers social and political commentary in the form of prints for publication in journals and newspapers. In All American Family Mock parodies those who would take the right to bear arms to an extreme, arming their dog and camouflaging their home. From 1980 through 1986 Mock’s prints appeared on the op-ed page of the New York Times. More recently his works have appeared in smaller but more politically-oriented journals, such as the union journal, Unite!, displayed here.
