Julie Green’s ‘The Last Supper’: Hundreds of Final Meals, Painted in Cobalt Blue

Between 1999 and 2021, Julie L. Green (1961–2021) collected mass-produced platters and plates and re-fired them with cobalt blue mineral paint, illustrating the last meals requested by people on death row — pizzas, lobster, pies, KFC cartons, a birthday cake for a man who never had one, and a plate reading simply “NONE.” The series now runs to hundreds of pieces, on view at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.

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