spray-paint and acrylics on canvas

61 x 78.7 inches

In the Newspaper Mile, across from City Hall, were the New York Times and Tribune buildings. 

Henry Raymond, owner and publisher of the New York Times, confronted the insurgents on the roof of the New York Times, but from a safe distance and posted behind a Gatling Gun – a precursor to heavy machine guns. Although the rebels made it to the second floor of the nearby Tribune, the New York Times was spared. 

The Tribune was under siege. None of its staff, however, could keep its unimpressed editor, Horace Greeley, from joining the boiling crowd of several rioters. "If I can't take my supper when I'm hungry, my life has no value to me" was his laconic explanation for this daring move. Only too gladly would the protesters have gone for his collar; if only they had recognized him.