Collaged tar paper, oil pastel, found painted wood, found magazine, three gelatin silver prints with printed text on mylar overlay, and nails and staples, mounted on wood panel. 61 13/16 × 108 1/4 × 3in.
“One of Williams’ best known works is Accused/Blowtorch/Padlock (1986), which consists of an image of a black man tied to a tree (originally published in Life magazine in 1937 and not attributed to a specific photographer), surrounded by text expressing the artist's reaction to this image.
Accused/Blowtorch/Padlock has been included in exhibitions such as The Decade Show, a large-scale collaborative exhibition by the New Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, as well as in Art, Women, California 1950–2000: Parallels and Intersections at the San Jose Museum of Art.” - Wikipedia