They Could Still Serve represents Gallagher's biggest focused body of work: large scale pieces that explore racial stereotypes of African Americans, specifically those seen in minstrel shows.

[1] They Could Still Serve has been exhibited in numerous group shows as MoMA.

In 2007, it was included in Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making because of the cartoonish style of the eyeballs.

In 2008, the piece was in Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now and in 2010-2011's On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century.

[1][2][3] The name, They Could Still Serve, comes from an etching in The Disasters of War series by Francisco de Goya.