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ALAN METNICK: MOURNERS (WAR PROTEST POSTER) - Alan Metnick: Mourners (War Protest Poster), 1975. Silkscreen on archival paper edition of 100, signed in pencil below, unframed. From the R.I.S.D. (Rhode Island School of Design) Sixth Annual Silkscreen Portfolio, 1975. Metnick first embraced photography, creating sensitive and strong work under the guidance of photographer Harry Callahan at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received an MFA. Characteristically, he discovered printmaking while making protest posters for the Vietnam War, Kent State, and Cambodia, under RISD instructor Art Wood. Since then Metnick has created a body of work (photography, serigraphy, drawing, and stained glass) that reflects his many talents and interests in ”the historical, biblical, and personal.”