spray-paint and acrylics on canvas

78.7 x 57.1 inches

New York's elite were the super-rich oil tycoons and factory owners who profited enormously from cheap labor and lived in splendor. They had their magnificent mansions equipped with furniture from European royal houses, but had hardly any idea of how the impoverished immigrants lived, who toiled daily in their factories under unspeakable conditions. These wretched people were not expected to put up any serious, tangible resistance.   

All the greater was the surprise when, in the summer of 1863, large numbers of marauding figures suddenly approached New York's mansions in a not at all humble attitude and actually stormed some of them.