The stars and stripes on the raglan sleeves worn in Leland Richard, 1980, speak of a broken United States. The T-shirt, from Bill Pearl’s Gym in Los Angeles, is like the idealistic pattern of a children’s top, one that would indoctrinate a child into the myth of the American flag.

Permanent Collections

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art / J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California

Exhibitions

• Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, and J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, March 20 - July 31, 2016. Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (2016 - 2017); Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2017); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2017 - 2018)
• Robert Mapplethorpe. Grand Palais, Paris, France, March 26 - July 13, 2014. Traveled to: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (2015)

Publications

• Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs. Edited by Paul Martineau and Britt Salvesen. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016. Exhibition Catalogue
• Robert Mapplethorpe. Edited by Jerome Neutres. Paris, France: Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, 2014. Exhibition Catalogue