Julie Green, the artist who painted US prisoners' last meals, has died at the age of 60
The painter Julie Green died last Tuesday, October 12, aged 60, after a battle with ovarian cancer, the artist's gallery, Upfor, confirmed.
A professor of art at Oregon State University, Green created a poignant legacy that highlights the strange and soulful ritual for condemned prisoners on death row through"The Last Supper," a series of blue-on-white ceramic kiln-fired dishware with painted images of inmates' final dinner requests. In September, Green ended the project, which spanned 21 years and 1,000 plates, to illuminate the complex emotional decisions of those facing imminent death, as well as the racial and historic implications of capital punishment in the United States. At the time of the artist's death, the first 800 plates from"The Last Supper" wereA close up of one of Julie Green's "The Last Supper" plates, showing a birthday cake given to a Death Row inmate.
"Menus provide clues on region, race, and economic background," Green said in the statement."A family history becomes apparent when Indiana Department of Correction adds, 'He told us he never had a birthday cake so we ordered a birthday cake for him.'"Initially, Green became invested in death row meals after noticing that news outlets typically make the last meal part of the story of an inmate's final hours.
Some plates were created the day of an execution, almost in real time. In other cases, Green combed records to identify last meal requests. One work shows the meals of two Black Mississippi teenagers, who, in 1947, received fried chicken and watermelon before being sent to the electric chair for murder. In cases where an inmate requested nothing, Green painted the word"None" or the text recorded by prison officials.
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