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Artist/Maker
Kara Walker
(American, born 1969)
Publisher
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
Printer
Burnet Editions, New York, NY
Date2017
MediumEtching with aquatint, sugar-lift, spit-bite, and drypoint
DimensionsPlate (a): 32 13/16 × 23 15/16 in. (83.3 × 60.8 cm)
Sheet (a): 39 5/8 × 30 in. (100.6 × 76.2 cm)
Plate (b): 32 9/16 × 42 13/16 in. (82.7 × 108.7 cm)
Sheet (b): 39 11/16 × 49 1/8 in. (100.8 × 124.8 cm)
Plate (c): 32 5/8 × 23 15/16 in. (82.9 × 60.8 cm)
Sheet (c): 39 11/16 × 30 in. (100.8 × 76.2 cm)
Frame (.a-b): 42 1/2 × 52 × 2 in. (108 × 132.1 × 5.1 cm)
Frame (.c): 42 1/2 × 33 × 2 in. (108 × 83.8 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, William G. Roehrick '34 Art Acquisition and Preservation Fund
Object number2017.17a-c
Not on view
Description"Kara Walker created these prints following a residency at the American Academy in Rome during the Spring of 2016. The experience provided time and distance for reflection on the spate of police killings of young black men, and the persistence of such events in the United States. She delved into the power of monuments and themes of martyrdom that dominate and complicate the issue of slavery and free will. The prints (and a related class taught at Rutgers University) probe the relevance of memorials, monuments and the role such objects play in shaping collective experience. They also incorporate themes of Christianity, clearly influenced by the artist’s environs during her residency, and its complex history globally as well as in black life - in Kara’s own words, “alternating between captor and redeemer.” (SOURCE: Sikkema Jenkins & Co.)
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Additional Details
Provenance
2017: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Sikkema Jenkins, New York.
Signature
Signed "KW2017" at lower right margin of each sheet.
Inscribed
"22/25" at lower left margin of each sheet.
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